Bug#199376: dpkg: md5sum fails for large files (>2GB)

[cae@bklyn.org]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.10
Severity: normal

	The md5sum program supplied with dpkg is failing on large
	files (>2GB).  The same files are handled properly by the GNU
	textutils md5sum:

% dd if=/dev/zero of=large.file bs=1024 count=2621440
2621440+0 records in
2621440+0 records out
2684354560 bytes transferred in 148.437765 seconds (18084041 bytes/sec)
% du -sh large.file
2.6G    large.file
% ls -l large.file
-rw-rw-r--    1 cae      audio    2684354560 Jun 30 09:16 large.file
% md5sum large.file
large.file: Success
% md5sum.textutils large.file
68bb4c82dda8a649124a651e432ff594  large.file

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux tela.bklyn.org 2.4.21 #54 Thu Jun 26 09:30:12 EDT 2003 i686 GNU/Linux

Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
ii  dselect        1.10.10        a user tool to manage Debian packages
ii  libc6          2.3.1-17       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone