Bug#271350: apt: please set permissions of Packages/Release files

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 08:22:29PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:

> the files `apt-get update` downloads are stored with a mode
> according to the umask of the caller. All my root accounts have 077,
> which causes them to be 600 and thus unreadable by normal users.
> I don't see a point at having these file be anything but 644 or even
> 664. Could you please have apt-get set the permissions explicitly
> after downloading the files?

I agree; I think it is supposed to do this, but a case is missing somewhere
(search apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc for chmod).

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 - mdz