[DRE-maint] Bug#800108: gem2deb: permanently broken when cache is missing

[brian m. carlson]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 01:40:00PM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> I tried in several ways, by removing my cache, adding garbage to it,
> both on my main system with my own user account and on a clean chroot
> with a freshly-created user account and no previous apt-file data, and
> couldn't reproduce this. Everytime I do get the invalid cache error, but
> the cache _is_ rebuilt the next time.
> 
> Can you provide a list of steps that will reproduce this?

It looks like the output of apt-file is empty, which leads to an invalid
cache:

  vauxhall ok % apt-file search /usr/share/rubygems-integration/
  vauxhall ok %

This may be because I changed package mirrors recently and didn't run
apt-file update.  gem2deb should detect this case and handle it more
gracefully.
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