Re: Bug#2330: Xpm -- Problem unpacking control info

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

brian white writes ("Bug#2330: Xpm -- Problem unpacking control info"):
> I'm trying to unpack the new Xpm libs and get the following problems:
> 
> callandor:16 - /tmp# dpkg --install xpm4.7-*
> 
> gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
> dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: error processing xpm4.7-3.4g-1.deb (--install):
>  subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2

This is a consequence of you having the bad netstd, which leaves
SIGPIPE set to SIG_IGN.

Log in locally and upgrade your netstd.

Ian.

PS: I'm closing this bug report; the netstd bug has been fixed, and
there is no bug in dpkg or xpm here.