Bug#633510: apt-get source as regular user fails when /var/cache/apt/archives/partial does not exist

[Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>]

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

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