> This sounds reminiscent of <http://bugs.debian.org/642802>. > It would be a serious bug, except the necessary version of tar had been in
> squeeze for more than a year already. What version of tar were you
> using when you ran into this? (/var/log/dpkg.log should say.) What
> error message did you get from aptitude when problems arose? (I think
> aptitude keeps this kind of information somewhere in /var/log, such as
> aptitude.log or term.log, but I'm not sure.)
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
Hi Jonathan, yes, you are right! It is exactly the problem/behaviour described in the bug above. And it is the same error message I got. Sorry, I cannot send a log, as the notebook I discovered this, was not mine and is already changed to testing. I suppose, to change squeeze to the version of tar in wheezy would do the trick, but it would break debian stable rules. However, this is a bug, which might inhibit the next release, so it should be fixed. Best regards Hans |