Bug#51396: apt-get source does not work as non-root

[Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.14
Severity: normal

$ apt-get source appindex
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Archive directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing.
E: Unable to find a source package for appindex
$ sudo apt-get source appindex
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Need to get 55.8kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://www.uk.debian.org unstable/main appindex 0.5-1 (dsc) [614B]
Get:2 http://www.uk.debian.org unstable/main appindex 0.5-1 (tar) [52.5kB]
Get:3 http://www.uk.debian.org unstable/main appindex 0.5-1 (diff) [2648B]
Fetched 55.8kB in 3s (16.2kB/s)
utmp entry ("edward") does not match value of LOGNAME ("root"); using "root"
at
/usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47.
dpkg-source: extracting appindex in appindex-0.5
$

I think it may be related to bug #49627 `apt: Cannot -s as non-root', not
sure.

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux wb010 2.0.36 #2 Wed Sep 22 07:13:18 BST 1999 i586

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.1.2-10   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10                 1:2.95.2-3 The GNU stdc++ library