Bug#681598: Same problem

On 08/04/2012 11:26 AM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> Problem happened again today. sources.list hasn't been touched, but
> suddenly release detection fails:

[...]

> Based on previous experiments, it will now work for a while and then
> suddenly start failing again.

Next time it does, could you send on a directory listing in
/var/lib/apt/lists?  (Before running the update; i.e. while
get_distro_information() still fails.)