It is unreasonable to expect users to manually fix apt-get's cache files when they become corrupted. As a long-time apt-get user who has encountered this bug frequently, I can attest to its age, and am surprised it has not been fixed after all these years. For proof, simply see this bug report from 2001: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=93453
At minimum, apt-get should catch the corruption and exit gracefully whilst informing the user how to fix it. Better would be for apt-get to warn of the corrupted file and fix it automatically. Best would be to fix the bug(s) causing the corruption, thus avoiding this issue entirely. As to its difficulty: that just makes it more challenging and rewarding to fix, right? ;) ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #93453 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=93453 -- [MASTER] aptitude/apt-get segmentation fault on currupted cache https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/16467 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
