Comment 64 for bug 24061

Robbie, why has this been triaged as "Won't fix?" this causes real problems for people trying to run Ubuntu on machines behind Squid proxies that they don't control (for example in a corporate or university environment).

It seems to me that an appropriate fix would be for apt-get clean to actually remove the cached lists files, as well as the partial directory contents. At the moment, there's no apt-get command which properly cleans the downloaded files.

As such, this is really a problem in Debian, not Ubuntu, and should be passed upstream.