[Bug 1547983] Re: Cache isn't always used

[Julian Andres Klode]

apt-get download never used the cached packages at all. And now with
apt(8) deleting the debs after a successful install, there won't be any
in most cases anyway.

It might make sense to do so, though.

** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Cache isn't always used

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 dev with apt 1.2.3 and I'm noticing that using
  "apt-get download" does not always use the cache like this example
  shows:

  root at ubuntu:~/tmp# apt-get install adwaita-icon-theme-full --reinstall
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 8089 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
  Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 adwaita-icon-theme-full all 3.18.0-2ubuntu3 [8089 kB]
  60% [1 adwaita-icon-theme-full 6033 kB/8089 kB 75%]                                                                                                                                                                              422 kB/s 4s^C
  root at ubuntu:~/tmp# apt-get download adwaita-icon-theme-full
  Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 adwaita-icon-theme-full all 3.18.0-2ubuntu3 [8089 kB]
  12% [1 adwaita-icon-theme-full 1231 kB/8089 kB 15%]^C

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