Bug#970934: Please either change or document 0700 permissions on partial directories

[Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 2.1.10
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org

apt creates /var/cache/apt/archives/partial and
/var/lib/apt/lists/partial with mode 0700. An old changelog entry from
2014 mentions doing so, but I haven't found any explanation why these
directories couldn't be (for instance) 0755.

If there's a specific reason why these directories need to prevent
world-readability, I'd love to see documentation of that. If there isn't
(or isn't anymore), I'd love to see those directories become 0755.

Thanks,
Josh Triplett