Bug#595922: apt-utils: apt-ftparchive creates borken Packages and Sources files

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Package: apt-utils
Version: 0.8.1
Severity: important

Running:
apt-ftparchive -oAPT::FTPArchive::Release::Suite=BLABLA -c ... \
	release path1/path2 > path1/path2/Release
which always worked in the last 5 years, suddenly I get:
 tl2009: 40 files 608MB 8s
 tl2009:  texlive-extra has no source override entry
  texlive-extra has no binary override entry either
  texlive-bin has no source override entry
  texlive-bin has no binary override entry either
  texlive-base has no source override entry
  texlive-base has no binary override entry either
  texlive-extra has no source override entry
  texlive-extra has no binary override entry either
  tex-common has no source override entry
  tex-common has no binary override entry either
  texlive-base has no source override entry
  texlive-base has no binary override entry either
  lmodern has no source override entry
  lmodern has no binary override entry either
  context has no source override entry
  context has no binary override entry either
  texlive-lang has no source override entry
  texlive-lang has no binary override entry either
  texlive-doc has no source override entry
  texlive-doc has no binary override entry either
  luatex has no source override entry
  luatex has no binary override entry either
 11 pkgs in 0s
Packages done, Starting contents.
 tl2009/Contents-i386:
E: Could not open file /src/TeX/debian/people/TeX/tl2009/Packages - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Error processing contents tl2009/Contents-i386
Done. 608MB in 40 archives. Took 8s

E: Could not open file TeX/tl2009/Sources - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Could not open file TeX/tl2009/Sources.gz - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Could not open file TeX/tl2009/Packages - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Could not open file TeX/tl2009/Packages.gz - open (13: Permission denied)

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
....


And the files end up with:
$ ls -l s -l TeX/tl2009/Packages* TeX/tl2009/Sources*
---------x 1 norbert norbert 113373 Sep  7 19:23 TeX/tl2009/Packages*
---------x 1 norbert norbert  36381 Sep  7 19:23 TeX/tl2009/Packages.gz*
---------x 1 norbert norbert  16493 Sep  7 19:23 TeX/tl2009/Sources*
---------x 1 norbert norbert   4616 Sep  7 19:23 TeX/tl2009/Sources.gz*

What is broken here?

Thanks

Norbert

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.36-rc3+ (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages apt-utils depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg4.10]          0.8.1      Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-5   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdb4.8                      4.8.30-2   Berkeley v4.8 Database Libraries [
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.4.4-13 GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.4.4-13   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt-utils recommends no packages.

apt-utils suggests no packages.

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