Bug#46716: dpkg: fails to install inews, ./ error?
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.1.13
Severity: normal
Unpacking inewsinn (from .../inewsinn_1.7.2-11_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/inewsinn_1.7.2-11_i386.deb
(--unpack):
unable to create ./usr/bin/inews': No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/inewsinn_1.7.2-11_i386.deb
The package contains:
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-09-06 12:40:22 ./usr/bin/
-rwxr-sr-x root/news 37252 1999-09-06 12:40:22 ./usr/bin/inews
Which looks fine to me. Has the change in tar somehow broken dpkg?
-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux gumdrop 2.2.12 #1 SMP Wed Sep 22 16:18:39 PDT 1999 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.2-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii libncurses4 4.2-3.3 Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-0pre2 The GNU stdc++ library
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