The runtime tree structure/contents mapping is fed from a cache db which
just essentially maps package,type pairs to some data (e.g. (package,
contents ) maps to the list of files) or the packages directly. At
runtime we read the file list from each file and build the reverse map
file->packages.

The cache db is not affected by this or other changes in later versions
of apt for that matter.

A future release may move the cache db from bdb to lmdb to improve
reliability, but such a change would end up being transparent, except
for a one-time performance hit when the old database is discarded :D

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  distribution-gpg-keys-copr crashes Launchpad/apt-ftparchive

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