Public bug reported:
After selecting all available updates (key "U"), on the confirmation
screen (key "g"), after highlighting a package (up/down arrow keys) and
asking for the changelog (key "C"), the changelog is downloaded and
displayed, except a red background warning is shown that after dropping
privileges (changing to user _apt) the program encountered a Permission
denied error. Logging in on another virtual console and listing /tmp
shows that the directory aptitude<random> is owned by root, group root,
with "rwx" for the owner and no other mode bits set. Ergo when a
process sets its UID to the one for _apt (118), no operations will be
possible inside that directory.
** Affects: aptitude (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: i386 xenial
** Attachment added: "output of apport-cli -f -p aptitude --save bug.apport"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1609940/+attachment/4714240/+files/bug.apport
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Title:
aptitude 0.7.4-2ubuntu2 outputs permission warning when asked to
display a changelog ("C")
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