Comment 37 for bug 1651923

While the new version of the package worked for me, so did apt version 1.2.18 - shouldn't it have failed?

bdmurray@clean-xenial-amd64:~$ apt-cache policy apt
apt:
  Installed: 1.2.18
  Candidate: 1.2.18
  Version table:
 *** 1.2.18 500
        500 http://192.168.10.7/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.2.15ubuntu0.2 500
        500 http://192.168.10.7/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages
     1.2.10ubuntu1 500
        500 http://192.168.10.7/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
bdmurray@clean-xenial-amd64:~$ /usr/lib/apt/apt-helper download-file http://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org/repo/pool/free/ardour4_4.7.0-1kxstudio1_i386.deb test.deb
Get:1 http://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org/repo/pool/free/ardour4_4.7.0-1kxstudio1_i386.deb [60.2 MB]
Fetched 60.2 MB in 10s (5,701 kB/s)