[Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#815188: Bug#815188: aide: 31_aide_apt-file will need updating with apt-file 3

[Julian Andres Klode]

Control: clone -1 -2
Control: severity -2 important
Control: retitle -2 31_aide_apt uses apt internals
Control: user deity at lists.debian.org
Control: usertag -2 apt-internals

On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 10:56:00AM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
> 9Marc Haber:
> > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 12:06:02PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
> >>   So the /etc/aide/aide.conf.d/31_aide_apt-file file is probably
> >> redundant with apt-file 3.
> > 
> > So we can simply remove it?
> > 
> > Greetings
> > Marc
> > 
> 
> Hi Marc,
> 
> You would be able to, if [31_aide_apt] used apt-get indextargets to find
> all files that apt downloads.  :)   That file will need updates to
> support compressed indices and deb822 sources.list files (@cc deity so
> they are aware of that as well).

Whatever that's doing it seems broken. It does not support compressed indexes,
nor will it work if we suddenly change some filenames, for example, because if
we moved to a hash based layout. I announced to do the former this month, see
<20170909144829.ulxdkz6w2awnja7e at jak-x230> for details.


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