[Aptitude-devel] Bug#806907: aptitude: Error when downloading changelog

[Orgad Shaneh]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.7.4-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

When opening a changelog (using C) for the first time in a session, the
following message is displayed:

  Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/tmp/aptitude-root.16403:PHJ2s0/aptitudeDownload6J+8J:+PsVGmTNm^.^::Lz:%.Hi55VKA' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.7.4 compiled at Nov 26 2015 23:36:00
Compiler: g++ 5.2.1 20151125
Compiled against:
  apt version 5.0.0
  NCurses version 6.0
  libsigc++ version: 2.6.2
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20151024
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 5.0.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff4fdfe000)
	libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007f823ddd5000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f823dba5000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f823d97a000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f823d774000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f823d477000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f823d1a0000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0x00007f823cf86000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f823cb84000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f823c966000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f823c5eb000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f823c2e6000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f823c0cf000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f823bd2c000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f823bb29000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f823b924000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f823b70d000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f823b4f2000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f823b2e1000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f823b0be000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f823aeb5000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f823acb0000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000055a2a64bb000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.7.4-2
ii  libapt-pkg5.0             1.1.3
ii  libboost-iostreams1.58.0  1.58.0+dfsg-4
ii  libc6                     2.21-1
ii  libcwidget3v5             0.5.17-4+b1
ii  libgcc1                   1:5.2.1-27
ii  libncursesw5              6.0+20151024-2
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5         2.6.2-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.9.2-1
ii  libstdc++6                5.2.1-27
ii  libtinfo5                 6.0+20151024-2
ii  libxapian22v5             1.2.21-1.2

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-8
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index  <none>
pn  debtags           <none>
ii  tasksel           3.34

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