Re: gimp-manual broken in slink

["James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>]

Zack Brown <zbrown@lynx.neu.edu> writes:

>gimp-manual has been corrupt in slink for a long time. It downloads
>but won't install, complaining of corruption. I've tried a number of
>times, and at least two of the downloads yielded identical files,
>making me think it is definitely something with the package itself,
>not my system.

My copy installs fine:
   
   vanzandt:/etc/cron.daily# dpkg -i
    /debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/doc/gimp-manual_1.0.0-1.deb
   Selecting previously deselected package gimp-manual.
   (Reading database ... 48346 files and directories currently
    installed.)
   Unpacking gimp-manual (from .../doc/gimp-manual_1.0.0-1.deb) ...
   Setting up gimp-manual (1.0.0-1) ...
   vanzandt:/etc/cron.daily# dpkg -r gimp-manual
   (Reading database ... 48877 files and directories currently
    installed.)
   Removing gimp-manual ...
   vanzandt:/etc/cron.daily# md5sum    /debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/doc/gimp-manual_1.0.0-1.deb
   8926d9c292ebaab596de9c3698ab0b25
    /debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/doc/gimp-manual_1.0.0-1.deb
   
Please calculate an md5sum to see whether your copy of the .deb is the
same.  Maybe you didn't use a "binary" transfer?

		 - Jim Van Zandt