corrupt zip/tar archives in the repository?

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

While recursively unpacking source archives in the debian repository
(see [1]), I noticed a small number of packages that contain corrupt
zip/tgz archives.  Logs from unpacking them are available from:

http://josefsson.org/broken-debian-origs/

The error messages are mixed in the output due to different buffering
for stdout vs stderr.  Searching for ' ' helps to find the real errors.

A dd-list of the 14 packages is included below.

Some of the corrupt archives may actually be appropriate.  I could
imagine that a corrupt archive can be included in a package to test
regressions for a compressor, or similar self-test reasons.  However,
that should be the exception, and I think the majority (if not all) of
these packages actually contains unintentionally corrupt archives.

Some of the corrupt archives is the *.orig.tar.gz archive itself, and
before noticing that this was a generic problem I reported this against
the 'e3' package, see
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=473092>.

This problem could also be due to bugs in tar, gzip or unzip, although I
find that somewhat unlikely.

I think it would be nice if there weren't corrupt archives in the
package pool, but I'm not sure if others consider this a real problem.

What do you think about reporting these as wishlist bugs?

Thanks,
/Simon

[1] http://git.josefsson.org/?p=debian-rfc-search.git;a=summary

Daniel Leidert (dale) <daniel.leidert@wgdd.de>
   apbs (U)

Masayuki Hatta (mhatta) <mhatta@debian.org>
   blender
   blender (U)

Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>
   apbs (U)

Fathi Boudra <fabo@debian.org>
   strigi (U)

Ludovic Brenta <lbrenta@debian.org>
   gnat-glade

Adrian Bridgett <bridgett@debian.org>
   xstarfish

Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois@enst-bretagne.fr>
   blender (U)

Paul Cager <paul-debian@home.paulcager.org>
   maven2 (U)

LI Daobing <lidaobing@gmail.com>
   apbs (U)

Debian Java Maintainers <pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
   maven2

Debian KDE Extras Team <pkg-kde-extras@lists.alioth.debian.org>
   strigi

Debichem Team <debichem-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
   apbs

Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
   r-cran-xml

Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>
   roxen4

Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr>
   dtc

Wouter van Heyst <larstiq@larstiq.dyndns.org>
   blender (U)

Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@ofset.org>
   wims-extra

Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>
   optcomplete

Mark Purcell <msp@debian.org>
   strigi (U)

Roger So <rogerso@debian.org>
   im-sdk
   im-sdk (U)

Akira TAGOH <tagoh@debian.org>
   im-sdk (U)

Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>
   nbd

Paweł Więcek <coven@debian.org>
   e3