Bug#933528: upgrade-reports: fails to load pkg list and cannot find permission to load pkg list

Package: upgrade-reports
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?     Only tryed to update.
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
     Quit the update and resumed using PC.
   * What was the outcome of this action?
     Not specific. Normal PC use.   
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
     Some program going into error.

-- System Information:

Debian Release: 9.9
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)