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.