Bug#243304: dpkg: eroneous md5sum gave malformatted output

[John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.20
Severity: important

I am getting md5sum gave malformatted output on any pakcages I try to
set up -- even a downgrade to a package which obviously did not give
this error before.  Maybe the previous fix never fixed the problem (or
not in all cases).  On one of my systems with the same dpkg I am not
getting this, but on the other system I am.  The system with the problem
has 2.6.2 kernel.  Not sure if this is related.  Also, dselect seems to
have disappeared (binary is still there, but as you see its says purged
below).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.2
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
pn  dselect                                  Not found.
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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