dpkg 1.9.5 happily installs borked .deb
with dpkg 1.9.5 ..
Selecting previously deselected package enlightenment.
(Reading database ... 93733 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking enlightenment (from enlightenment_0.16.5-4_i386.deb) ...
Setting up enlightenment (0.16.5-4) ...
dpkg --contents e..*deb
blah blah..
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 16540 2001-04-24 00:45:32 ./usr/bin/eesh
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 61532 2001-04-24 00:45:32 ./usr/bin/epp
tar: 209 garbage bytes ignored at end of archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
dpkg-deb: subprocess tar returned error exit status 2
zsh: 26186 exit 2 dpkg --contents enlightenment_0.16.5-4_i386.deb
deb is at auric.debian.org/~wolfie/enlightenment_0.16.5-4_i386.deb
have fun, - bri
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Brian Russo <brian@entropy.net> http://www.entropy.net
Debian/GNU Linux <wolfie@debian.org> http://www.debian.org
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