Dear Maintainer,

Since the update to 3.7.5-1, package import stopped working.

I 'followed the trail' for an example deb:
* its checksums (md5, sha1 and sha512) are correctly recorded in _impkeycache;
* the relevant index file (debrep/dists/trixie/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz)
  is available, up to date and of course has correct md5 and sha256 checksums;
* the import log says
  "Parsing metadata in debrep/dists/trixie/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz";
* but the import doesn't happen, the deb file is among the files "left behind"
  (which are counted three times, but that's another matter).

The logs don't seem to contain anything out of the ordinary, even with debug=7
and verboselog=1.  Is there anything I could provide to help diagnosis?

Thanks for maintaining!
-Steven

I installed trixie from scratch with the 13.2 netinst just over
two weeks ago, my second such installation. To save bandwidth,
I copied the trixie packages saved from my first installation
into /var/cache/apt/archives: it's now a 6.7GB .deb collection.
As this laptop runs pretty much 24/7, I decided to install
apt-cacher-ng on it, rather than my usual workaday desktop.

Following the acng guide, I attempted to import my packages,
and got the same symptoms as reported here at #5. The opening
words, "Since the update to 3.7.5-1," gave me hope, though;
so I carried out the following operations:

1. Re-moved the package collection out of /v/c/acng/_import/
   back into a safer location,

2. Removed apt-cacher-ng and its three dependencies that were
   recently installed (/only/ purging the dependencies), but
   see step 8,

3. Manually downloaded bookworm's version of apt-cacher-ng,

4: Attempted to install it, which required libc-ares2 in
   addition as a dependency,

5. Manually downloaded (trixie's) libc-ares2, and installed
   apt-cacher-ng and libc-ares2 together,

6. Moved the package collection back into /v/c/acng/_import/,

7. Import now worked.

I now have 5.2GB under debrep, and 1.7GB left behind in _import,
and the latter seems reasonable with there being 8 old chromiums,
4 old firefoxes, one old libreoffice suite and a linux-image
among the detritus. So,

8. apt-get upgrade   which upgraded apt-cacher-ng. I left
   libc-ares2 installed though it's currently redundant.
   (Removing the three dependencies at step 2 was unnecessary.
   Had this procedure not worked, I was going to remove acng
   for the time being, and use a USB stick instead.)

As this bug has been open for 17 months, I hope this post
might be of use to somebody.

Cheers,
David.