Another use case: I use a DSL modem/router at home which intercepts HTTP
requests and returns error pages informing me of the status of my
internet connection when my DSL connection goes down. I personally think
this is reasonable behaviour, but even if you disagree, the point is
that this is a default configuration of many such devices and just
telling people to reconfigure their routers is not a very user-friendly
solution. Apt should be more robust. Instead, if cron-apt runs when my
connection happens to be down, invalid data may get cached in
/var/lib/apt/lists, meaning that when the connection is back up I get
the BADSIG error when I next try to fetch updates. As Wayne Scott says
above, bad data should be detected and flushed from the cache.

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BADSIG errors using transparent http proxies
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/33505
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