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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Pat!  Can you please elaborate what the actual effect of this is?
AFAIK apport needs the apt lists only to determine/validate the origin
of a package (which we can/should work around on a system image indeed),
but *not* to determine the Package:/Dependencies: fields. I. e. mapping
files to packages and determining package versions should only require
the dpkg database in /var/lib/dpkg/, *not* apt.

** Description changed:

  On the phone images the space required for the lists in
  /var/lib/apt/lists is excessive (around 70MB) for the device targets we
  have. The partition it currently resides in did not include this
  requirement when their size was specified.
  
+ Removing those prevents one from using apport-cli to report bugs about
+ packages that are from the -updates pocket. This is due to the fact that
+ apport will not allow one to report bugs about packages which it cannot
+ determine are from the official archive or a native origin PPA.
+ 
  Possible solutions include generating the list dynamically as part of
  the writable partition or including a smaller  simpler manifest.
  
  This report was inspired by bug #1471903

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Title:
  do not require apt lists to be pre-installed

Status in Canonical System Image:
  Confirmed
Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  On the phone images the space required for the lists in
  /var/lib/apt/lists is excessive (around 70MB) for the device targets
  we have. The partition it currently resides in did not include this
  requirement when their size was specified.

  Removing those prevents one from using apport-cli to report bugs about
  packages that are from the -updates pocket. This is due to the fact
  that apport will not allow one to report bugs about packages which it
  cannot determine are from the official archive or a native origin PPA.

  Possible solutions include generating the list dynamically as part of
  the writable partition or including a smaller  simpler manifest.

  This report was inspired by bug #1471903

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