[Aptitude-devel] Bug#770908: aptitude does not know about the new _apt user. Must use apt-get update as a workaround

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.11-1+b1
Severity: grave

aptitude does not know about the new _apt user in e.g., apt 1.1~exp8.
Any use of aptitude update will leave filesystem permissions in an
inconsistent state. Please use apt-get update as a workaround.

Symptoms look like:
E: Could not open file
/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.tw.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_contrib_binary-i386_Packages.IndexDiff
- open (2: No such file or directory)

The other aptitude commands still work. Just not aptitude update.