Bug#736962: "apt-get download" truncates existing files

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.9.15
Severity: normal

$ apt-get download dash && wc -c dash_*.deb
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main dash i386 0.5.7-4 [105 kB]
Fetched 105 kB in 0s (7960 kB/s)
105316 dash_0.5.7-4_i386.deb

$ apt-get download dash && wc -c dash_*.deb
0 dash_0.5.7-4_i386.deb



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring  2012.4
ii  gnupg                   1.4.16-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12          0.9.15
ii  libc6                   2.18-0experimental1
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.9-20140122-1
ii  libstdc++6              4.9-20140122-1

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Jakub Wilk