package apt-cacher
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thanks

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 07:49:10PM +0200, Christian Bachmaier wrote:
> Package: apt-cacher
> Version: 1.7.15
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> executing /usr/share/apt-cacher/apt-cacher-cleanup.pl manually (or
> automatically by /etc/crond/apt-cacher) removes all deb-packages from
> /var/cache/apt-cacher, even if there is no newer versions in the debian
> repositories.

Thanks for this. You will have to give me more detail.

 - What repositories were clients accessing thorugh apt-cacher?
 - What packages and versions were present and then removed by
   apt-cacher-cleanup.pl?
 
> According to the documentation and to the used behavior some timne ago, the
> newest packages should be left untouched.

As far as I know the current behaviour is as it always has been -- once a
package is no longer mentioned in any index file it is removed. The newest
package is not kept unless it is still current in at least one release.

Mark

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