Package: apt Version: 1.2.1 Severity: normal Simple to reproduce:
$ LANG=C sudo apt-get source debian-installer [sudo] password for rhertzog: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done NOTICE: 'debian-installer' packaging is maintained in the 'Git' version control system at: git://git.debian.org/d-i/debian-installer.git Please use: git clone git://git.debian.org/d-i/debian-installer.git to retrieve the latest (possibly unreleased) updates to the package. Need to get 1 373 kB of source archives. Get:1 http://nas/debian unstable/main debian-installer 20160106 (dsc) [3 434 B] Get:2 http://nas/debian unstable/main debian-installer 20160106 (tar) [1 370 kB] Fetched 1 373 kB in 0s (26,2 MB/s) dpkg-source: info: extracting debian-installer in debian-installer-20160106 dpkg-source: info: unpacking debian-installer_20160106.tar.gz W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file 'debian-installer_20160106.dsc' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) $ ls -ald debian-installer* drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 janv. 1 16:27 debian-installer-20160106 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3434 janv. 6 06:12 debian-installer_20160106.dsc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1370014 janv. 6 06:12 debian-installer_20160106.tar.gz There's no such error when you run apt-get source as a normal user (which is the usual case). -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers squeeze-lts APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-lts'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages apt depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii debian-archive-keyring 2014.3 ii gnupg 1.4.20-1 ii gnupg2 2.1.11-2 ii gpgv 1.4.20-1 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.2.1 ii libc6 2.21-7 ii libgcc1 1:5.3.1-7 ii libstdc++6 5.3.1-7 apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> ii aptitude 0.7.5-3 ii dpkg-dev 1.18.4 ii python-apt 1.1.0~beta1 ii synaptic 0.83+b1 -- no debconf information
