This does happen to regular Ubuntu archives as well, during the
development phase. For a released version iti is obviously rare.
However, since doing an "apt-get update" can be heavy, especially on
slower machines, it's not necessarily a good idea to do it always before
installing upgrades. I'd say that the mechanisms we have in place of
keeping the packge lists up to date daily should take of the security
aspect.
It might help if the dialog saying packages couldn't be downloaded would
warn about package lists being up to date. Or the upgrade action could
the dates of the updates and warn if they're older than a day or two.
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
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update manager tries to download stale files?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/420009
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