Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: normal apt-get update sometimes sets the files in /var/lib/apt/lists to mode 0600 preventing group and world from reading them. If all the Release,Sources, and Packages files were set to 0644 then regular users can browse the package tree.
As it is now, we always need root, just to read a package description. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux oak 2.4.19 #5 Thu Oct 31 11:23:34 EST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-15 The GNU stdc++ library -- no debconf information
