[Cupt-devel] Bug#700708: cupt: why does cupt maintain its own apt repo database

[Jonathan Nieder]

retitle 700708 cupt: please share index cache files with APT
severity 700708 wishlist
block 700708 by 623113
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Hi Ritesh,

Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:

> Are there good reasons why cupt maintains its own database?
> Can it not just reuse what apt has with it?
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> E: unable to open the file '//var/lib/cupt/lists/http___ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-amd64_Packages': No such file or directory

See <http://bugs.debian.org/623113>.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan