Package: apt Version: 0.8.14.1 Severity: normal Running apt-get source as a regular user fails when /var/cache/apt/archives/partial does not exist:
$ apt-get source apt Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Archives directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing. - Acquire (13: Permission denied) As regular users cannot write there, there seems to be no reason for requiring the directory to exist. Regards, Ansgar -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii gnupg 1.4.11-3 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii libc6 2.13-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.6.1-1 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.6.1-1 GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> (no description available) ii aptitude 0.6.3-4 terminal-based package manager (te ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg-dev 1.16.0.3 Debian package development tools pn lzma <none> (no description available) ii python-apt 0.8.0 Python interface to libapt-pkg -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
