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  1. Bug #1809174
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1809174

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Stuart MacDonald (smacdonald-miov) wrote :

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.