Bug#897948: approx: jessie approx no longer retrieves files from /var/cache/approx

2018-05-25 Thread Edmund Biow
I upgraded my home server to current Debian stable stretch and it seems to be working. I'm not completely convinced approx is always pulling cached files from /var/cache/approx, but I have enabled logging and will check the syslog if I see a suspicious situation and report back. One observation I

Bug#897948: approx: jessie approx no longer retrieves files from /var/cache/approx

2018-05-05 Thread Eric Cooper
I would recommend installing the current version of approx if that's not too disruptive. The approx-gc program has been replaced with a simple find script that just removes old files, rather than trying to determine whether they're still referenced from Packages files (that was the source of

Bug#897948: approx: jessie approx no longer retrieves files from /var/cache/approx

2018-05-04 Thread y
Package: approx Version: 5.5-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I have used approx for years to service a variety of Debian and Ubuntu computers. Recently I was trying to upgrade several computers and I noticed that I was downloading the packages off the net repeatedly and my rather