Comment 9 for bug 11259

(In reply to comment #8)
> The date (17.12) is way too old. The signature should be only some hours old. I
> would
> love to know if your problem goes away if you tell apt not to use the proxy (if
> possible).
Yeah, I've tried that with the same results. However, I got to thinking about one
thing which is why the detached .gpg signatures are located in partial/ anyway?
That might be proxy related. Since the proxy software I use is not very advanced,
it is conceivable it might just close its socket to the client without
completing the
HTTP protocol under some circumstances. So then we come to what I think apt's
problem
is. Apt might see the .gpg file as being partially complete and try to finish
downloading it, and since it's usually the same or similar size it'd either get
a nil
download or failure. At the very least apt should delete any detached signatures it
sees in partial/, since the files aren't timestamped, they are not static, and
they're too small to warrant partial downloads.