Bruce Perens writes ("Re: Bug#2178: dpkg unclear error message"): > I can fix that bug. I simply didn't expect 100-character filenames in > packages. Thanks, that would be great. Can you please take a look at some of the changes I made to star.c in 1.0.12 ? It now consistently leaves errno set to 0 for corrupted and EOF archives, and to a nonzero value for system errors. (This is a bit of an abuse of errno, really ...) Ian.