Bug#1078608: apt update silently leaves old index data

Sebastian Krzyszkowiak <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:16:38 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.apt.devel
Message-ID <8149174.LvFx2qVVIh__45579.7260788799$1773858472$gmane$org@pliszka>
On Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:01:34 +0000 Jonathan Merkel 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, would it be better for this bug to be reassigned to packagekit?

No, if Julian's explanation above is correct (and after a quick look at the 
code I have no reason to doubt that it is) then it's a bug in apt-pkg that 
just happens to be easily triggered by PackageKit.