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Configuration Item: <literal>APT::FTPArchive::ReadOnlyDB</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>APT::FTPArchive::AlwaysStat</option></term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ &apt-ftparchive; caches as much as possible of metadata in it is cachedb. If packages
+ are recompiled and/or republished with the same version again, this will lead to problems
+ as the now outdated cached metadata like size and checksums will be used. With this option
+ enabled this will no longer happen as it will be checked if the file was changed.
+ Note that this option is set to "<literal>false</literal>" by default as it is not recommend
+ to upload multiply versions/builds of a package with the same versionnumber, so in theory
+ nobody will have these problems and therefore all these extra checks are useless.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry><term><option>APT::FTPArchive::LongDescription</option></term>
<listitem><para>
This configuration option defaults to "<literal>true</literal>" and should only be set to