/var/cache/apt/archives not clean

[jani]

Rui Tiago Matos wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:17:15 -0600, Jerry Haltom <wasabi at larvalstage.net> wrote:
> 
>>How about clean really old files from the cache. Like, only keep current
>>packages and one previous version?
> 
> 
> Yep, I like this one. Actually I have a little python script to do
> just that: keep only the most current version of a given installed
> package and delete all the previous and no longer installed ones.
> 

Is what you guys are talking about different from what apt-get clean or 
apt-get autoclean do?