[Touch-packages] [Bug 1556728] [NEW] apt-get update not fetching packages in external repositories

2016-03-13 Thread Hariharan Iyer
Public bug reported: apt-get update is not fetching packages from external repositories in Xenial. I have a few added in my system, but let's consider the following two as examples: http://ppa.launchpad.net/noobslab/icons/ubuntu This provides a package called ultra-flat-icons, among many others

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1551511] [NEW] apt: packages that need to download other files do not work

2016-02-29 Thread Hariharan Iyer
Public bug reported: Packages that need to download and install other files, such as pepperflashplugin-nonfree and msttfcorefonts fail to download the files. Errors similar to the following are observed: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file