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  1. Bug #16467
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 16467

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greenmoss (ktyubuntu) wrote : Re: [MASTER] aptitude/apt-get segmentation fault on currupted cache

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? ;)