huge tree of package descriptions in /var/tmp

I fear this question will have an embarassing answer, but I just found a large file tree in /var/tmp/filexQ70qA on my Debian Woody system. The contents seem to be some form of the Debian packages database. filexQ70qA/ contains a huge number of directiories (~ 5000--BTW, that takes a while to list

Re: What is required to provide lpr?

On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 07:21:57PM -0600, Jeff Licquia wrote: > I have had a wishlist bug filed against cupsys-bsd, asking that it > Provide lpr; evidently, some other packages Recommend lpr, and apt > keeps trying to replace cupsys-bsd and replace it with lpr. AFAIK, > the packages only use the c