Bug#233294: installation report - tar: Unrecognised file type

[Eric Bus <eric@fambus.nl>]

> I experienced this same error last night using the sarge businesscard 
> daily from 02/16/2004, and the package was perl-base.  The error 
> behaved exactly the same when I tried the mirror at ftp.us.debian.org 
> using ftp and again when I tried the mirror at mirror.kernel.org using 
> http.  It may be mirrors.kernel.org, but you know which one I mean.  
> My notes say mirror.kernel.org, but I am not sure they're correct.

It is indeed related to the perl-base package. I seemed to have two 
versions of it. The problem occured for the package with the highest 
version.

Eric