Robert Bond wrote:
I ran apt-get update on my etch system yesterday. It has been a while so 40+ packages showed up to be upgraded. I installed them... Most of it appeared to be Open Office upgrades. The upgrade blew up. I tracked the problem down to the fact that many files and directories on my system had a modification date of 12/12/2012! I fixed most of them with some "touch" scripts and got the upgrades to work.
Where did those files come from? If they belong to some debian package, you might want to check the timestamps of the files in that package with:
dpkg --contents file.deb -- Raj Kiran