Bug#247035: /usr/bin/dpkg-deb: [DPKG-DEB] fails to -I files >2GB

["Christopher W. Curtis" <chris.curtis@riptidesoftware.com>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.21
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/dpkg-deb


dpkg-deb fails when attempting to -I a file that is >2GB in size.  The
following is taken from dpkg-scanpackages:

$ dpkg-deb -I bigfile_1.0_all.deb control
tar: Read 7662 bytes from -
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
dpkg-deb: subprocess tar returned error exit status 2

This is on a 32-bit x86 platform, I don't have a 64bit platform to test
with.  The file size in question is 4,768,504,298 bytes.
dpkg-buildpackage generated it and dpkg -i works.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.23-pre4
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  dselect                     1.10.20      a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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