[Bug 1532944] Re: flashplugin-installer shows a warning after downloading the file with apt 1.1.x

[Evan Carroll]

How is this not an error? Getting this in 16.10. If we can't write to
the directory, why is that? We didn't do anything? Who set the perms
wrong. And, if they are wrong why does the package proceed to tell us it
worked... "Installing from local file" (when there file isn't there) and
then "Flash Plugin installed." There is nothing in that directory.
Nothing was installed. It didn't work. Status messages are not status
messages when they assume success.

Please reopen. This is a overzealous closing.

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Title:
  flashplugin-installer shows a warning after downloading the file with
  apt 1.1.x

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in flashplugin-nonfree package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 dev with apt 1.1.10 and on trying to install
  flashplugin-installer I'm always getting an error message after the
  file got downloaded. Here is an example output:

  root at ubuntu:~# apt-get install flashplugin-installer --reinstall
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    libapt-inst1.7 libapt-pkg4.16
  Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 0 B/6838 B of archives.
  After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
  debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
  (Reading database ... 99770 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack .../flashplugin-installer_11.2.202.559ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
  Unpacking flashplugin-installer (11.2.202.559ubuntu1) over (11.2.202.559ubuntu1) ...
  Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.164) ...
  flashplugin-installer: downloading http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_20151228.1.orig.tar.gz
  Get:1 http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_20151228.1.orig.tar.gz [26.8 MB]
  Fetched 26.8 MB in 3min 8s (143 kB/s)
  W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/adobe-flashplugin_20151228.1.orig.tar.gz' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
  Installing from local file /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/adobe-flashplugin_20151228.1.orig.tar.gz
  Flash Plugin installed.
  Setting up flashplugin-installer (11.2.202.559ubuntu1) ...

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