Bug#434824: /usr/bin/apt-ftparchive: apt-ftparchive: skips over .debs with tar warnings when using --db

[Frederic Briere <fbriere@fbriere.net>]

Package: apt-utils
Version: 0.7.3
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/apt-ftparchive

I have a package containing a file dating back to 1969 (as distributed
by upstream).  When running apt-ftparchive with --db, it interprets the
warning to that effect from tar as a fatal error, and skips over the
package saying "E: Corrupted archive".  This does not occur when
omitting the --db option.

While I agree that supporting negative timestamps isn't exactly a top
priority, it seems to me that apt-ftparchive ought to be able to tell
the difference between tar errors and warnings, and not choke on the
latter.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages apt-utils depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.5-6-4.4 0.7.3      Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libc6                         2.6-3      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.4                      4.4.20-8   Berkeley v4.4 Database Libraries [
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.2.1-0  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.2.1-0    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt-utils recommends no packages.

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