Comment 18 for bug 1157943

It looks to me like this may be resolved in Trusty due to the following changelog entries:

apt (0.9.12) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Christian Perrier ]
  * Fix typo in apt-private/private-show.cc. Thanks to Benjamin
    Keresa. Closes: #724073

  [ Mark Hymers ]
  * fix libapt-inst for >2G debs (closes: #725483)

  [ David Kalnischkies ]
  * don't strip :any from dependencies in single-arch (Closes: 723586)
  * pkg from only trusted sources keeps being trusted (Closes: 617690)
  * compression-neutral message for missing data.tar member (Closes: 722710)
  * print-uris prints regardless of quiet-level again (Closes: 722207)
  * retry without partial data after a 416 response (Closes: 710924)
  * replace "filesize - 1" trick in http with proper 416 handling
  * fix partial (206 and 416) support in https
  * handle complete responses to https range requests (Closes: 617643, 667699)
    (LP: 1157943)
  * don't consider holds for autoremoval (Closes: 724995)
  * put fetch errors in 'source' on our errorstack
  * use pkgAcqArchive in 'download' for proper errors
  * fix lzma-support detection via xz binary
  * do not ++ on erased package pointers in autoremove