Bug#468481: Incorrect error message when target /var partition is full

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

On Friday 29 February 2008, Olivier Guerrier wrote:
> When/if you make a too small /var partition, d-i complains with tons of
> "/pool/.../blah.deb is corrupt" messages, where a single "disk full"
> message and a dialog option to go back to the main menu or partition
> tools would be more usefull...
>
> It is similar to #435769, but I think correcting the error message is a
> more realist goal.

The problem is that this does not really have anything to do with the 
installer. The error messages are what apt/dpkg produce in this situation 
and they would also produce these same errors on an installed system 
if /var is full.

I'm a bit hesitant in reassigning this to apt/dpkg myself.

Cheers,
FJP