We made things work better for unreadable files, so I think that's fixed
in cosmic and probably bionic.
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Status: In Progress => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/849736
Title:
apt-cache policy silently shows inaccurate information when any file
in /etc/apt/sources.list.d is unreadable
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Version: 0.8.16~exp5ubuntu8
Release: 11.10
I've noticed some odd behaviour from apt-cache policy where it
pretends, without protest, that package versions in PPAs don't exist.
The trigger seems to be a newly-added source whose .list file I set up
to be only readable by root (it contains authentication information).
When any file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d is unreadable, apt-cache
won't try to read further files, and it also apparently discards
information from any of the files it did manage to read. (Assuming it
reads them as it goes — I was only tracing calls to open(2).)
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