Re: xz support in dpkg

[Andreas Balser <a@abalser.de>]

Terrific, it seems to be working!

Actually, I had tried manually upgrading dpkg yesterday; but
failed. This time it worked, and now "apt-get upgrade" is busy.

Thanks, Andreas

> On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:12:01 +0200, Andreas Balser wrote:
>
> (...)
>  
>> PS: After some googling, I believe the problem is that I am running
> a
>> version of dpkg that is too old (1.15.5.6, but I would need >1.15.6,
> I
>> think). Anyway, any workaround to make apt-get work again,
> incl. support
>> for data.tar.xz, is highly appreciated!
>
> Most probably you are in this situation:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=642454
>
> The suggested solution (as per comment #17) seems to be upgrading dpkg
> itself.
>
> Greetings,