The problem with deferring the situation to the clean command is that the system appears to be working properly with no problem, and the user will have to _guess_ that cleanup is required.
Running md5sum on the packages is not expensive: ubuntu@T000000-tx2b:/var/lib/apt/lists$ time md5sum ports.ubuntu.com_ubuntu-ports_dists_xenial_universe_binary-arm64_Packages 005695bf761c4719325927b5a236a77e ports.ubuntu.com_ubuntu-ports_dists_xenial_universe_binary-arm64_Packages real 0m0.166s user 0m0.136s sys 0m0.036s Certainly it's much faster than the downloading of the indexes in the first place. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1809174 Title: apt doesn't detect file corruption in /var/lib/apt/lists To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1809174/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
