Bug#816696: apt: generates tons of root-owned .ed.YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM.SS.gz files in user’s home
Package: apt
Version: 1.2.4
Severity: normal
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 453 Feb 17 22:00 .ed.2016-02-17-2054.23.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31 Feb 18 04:03 .ed.2016-02-18-0256.55.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 543 Feb 19 16:05 .ed.2016-02-19-1457.42.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 414 Feb 20 16:11 .ed.2016-02-20-1504.48.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 226 Feb 20 22:18 .ed.2016-02-20-2114.21.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 747 Feb 23 04:07 .ed.2016-02-23-0259.59.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 493 Feb 23 22:06 .ed.2016-02-23-2058.42.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29 Feb 24 04:06 .ed.2016-02-24-0258.17.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 608 Feb 26 21:59 .ed.2016-02-26-2055.25.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 259 Feb 29 04:33 .ed.2016-02-29-0330.45.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31 Feb 29 21:50 .ed.2016-02-29-2049.12.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 540 Mär 1 10:13 .ed.2016-03-01-0911.46.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 790 Mär 1 15:54 .ed.2016-03-01-1452.37.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 327 Mär 2 15:54 .ed.2016-03-02-1452.56.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 417 Mär 2 21:57 .ed.2016-03-02-2055.23.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 453 Mär 3 03:52 .ed.2016-03-03-0251.20.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 931 Mär 3 22:45 .ed.2016-03-03-2144.00.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 448 Mär 4 04:01 .ed.2016-03-04-0252.11.gz
I’m not exactly amused to find those in my u̲s̲e̲r̲’̲s̲ home directory
after having run sudo apt-get update and dist-upgrade. I can only
think they’re from APT because of the contents:
tglase@tglase:~ $ zcat .ed.2016-03-04-0252.11.gz
615,619c
Filename: pool/contrib/b/boinc/boinc-client-opencl_7.6.29+dfsg-2_i386.deb
Size: 48236
MD5sum: b7c9a2d50bbb29efc3b2f018957be68d
SHA1: 2427ca07c20bac655d8299520ad0cb1b9acfb548
SHA256: f96f783f75cc1f965f71cac7f8b71f31367c25d43e62b0ec93b978ef4df64a58
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