Re: libc6 upgrade trouble due to dpkg/tar failures

[ujr@physik.phy.tu-dresden.de (Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler)]

Adam Heath wrote:

> What version of dpkg?  I hope it wasn't some cvs version.  There was a time
> when dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile would output corrupt data(a debug stmt was being
> print out in the middle of the tar stream).  This has been fixed, however.

1.8.1.2, shortly before upgrading to 1.8.3.1 (which pre-depends on libc6
2.2.1, however). If I unpack the deb manually with ar and check
data.tar.gz with tar tzvf it is corrupted as well...

  Ulf