dpkg reports problems with package files

[osinski@valis.cs.nyu.edu (Ed Osinski)]

I installed Debian 1.3 from the recent Tri-Linux CD.  When dselect was going
through the packagesin the Install step, the following error message was 
reported:

dpkg-deb: unexpected end of file in version number in /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/stable/binary/sound/timidity-patches_0.1-1.deb
dpkg: error processing /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/stable/binary/sound/timidity-patches_0.1-1.deb (--install):
  subprocess dpkg-deb -- control returned error exit status 2

I got the same error for each of the following packages:

	gnat_3.09-1
	lesstif-dev_0.76-1
	lesstif-dbg_0.76-1
	lesstif-bin_0.76-1
	timidity-patches_0.1-1
	xbooks_3.2-6

Fortunately, I wasn't trying to install any of the above.  My questions are:

* Is this a problem with the package file, the CD, dpkg, or something else?

* Should this be reported somewhere, or is it a well-known problem (or maybe
  not a problem at all)?

* Is there some place where I can get an errata of known problems for 1.3?
  (I ran into 2 others; one was a problem with the serial module which I
  finally figured out how to fix after nearly a week, and a problem with 
  xdm reporting "invalid login" for valid passwords.  I found a possible
  solution to that one by searching the debian mailing lists; I'll try it 
  as soon as I send this message and leave Windows95. :-))

Thanks.

- Ed


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