Re: Bug #84829: tar.gz doesn't unpack

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu> wrote:
>I received a bizarre bug report a few days ago, saying that the source .tar.gz
>for my package doesn't unpack on MIPS, then the guy repeated the problem on
>i386.  The md5sums are right, so I have no clue why it isn't working for him.
>"apt-get source evolver" works just fine for me on i386 potato, alpha woody
>and sid, ARM woody and PPC sid.

And i386 sid, for what it's worth - I even tried from the same mirror.

Is he working over NFS, or some other bizarrely unreliable filesystem?
It certainly doesn't seem like a problem with your package.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]