Comment 83 for bug 1522675

"It's not like you get hundreds of them each day."

True. But even one such message puzzles and worries users. 360 users have marked this bug, but imagine how many thousands don't even know to look on Launchpad?

This report was filed 18 months ago. I don't doubt it's hard to fix it for systems that have been upgraded. But this affects a fresh install of 16.04.2. Is it hard to make _apt the owner of .../package-data-downloads/partial/ when Ubuntu is freshly installed?

I'm sure some of us reporting this bug come across as whiners, part of the problem, not part of the solution. Chippendale didn't send out furniture with splinters, he was passionate about quality. We're passionate about Linux. That's why we go to the trouble of reporting bugs.