[Aptitude-devel] Bug#806595: aptitude: Changelog download throws warning: "W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/tmp/aptitude-root.15442:qGi6mn/aptitudeDownload6J+8J:+PsVGmTNm^.^::Lz:%.Hi55VKA' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)"

[nfb]

I'm getting these same warnings, both for root and regular user, so
i found this bug report.

>In my system, both dirs' permissions are 700 and owned by _apt:root,
>it doesn't emit any error and changelog works fine, no warnings.

Anyway on my system (Debian stretch/testing, aptitude 0.7.4-2):

$ ls -ld /var/lib/apt/lists/partial /var/cache/apt/archives/partial
drwx------ 2 _apt root 4096 dic 14 10:00 /var/cache/apt/archives/partial
drwx------ 2 _apt root 4096 dic 14 09:58 /var/lib/apt/lists/partial