[Aptitude-devel] Bug#806595: stupid by design?

Marcel Partap mpartap at gmx.net
Thu Feb 4 10:09:47 UTC 2016

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Uhhm.. so why does it try to write to a dir calculably owned by root
with dropped privileges in the first place? Somewhat bothersome :/

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