Bug#650513: excessive backup pkgcache.bin files

reopen 650513 found 650513 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 severity 650513 important tags 650513 + fixed squeeze thanks This bug exists in stable, and it's very annoying on my side. My partition will fill up with these blasted files. I think it's more noticeable on my side because I use CRON-APT to update my

Bug#650513: excessive backup pkgcache.bin files retained?

Package: apt Version: 0.8.15.9 Severity: wishlist It seems excessive backup pkgcache.bin files are being retained, # ls -l /var/cache/apt total 99472 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 139264 Nov 29 16:54 archives -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17660650 Nov 29 16:56 pkgcache.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25165824 Jun