Debian Bug report logs - #10026
Serious problem after installing tar.

Package: dpkg; Maintainer for dpkg is Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>; Source for dpkg is src:dpkg (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com>

Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 22:18:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 1.4.0.17

Done: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
Bug#10026; Package dpkg. (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>. (full text, mbox, link).

Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.17

thor# ls -al /bin/tar
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        77769 May 21 23:56 /bin/tar
thor# dpkg -i ~debian/bo/binary-i386/base/tar_1.11.8-11.deb 
(Reading database ... 26125 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace tar 1.11.8-11 (using .../base/tar_1.11.8-11.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement tar ...
Setting up tar (1.11.8-11) ...

thor# ls -al /bin/tar
?--------- 65535 root     root     16778434 Jan  1  1970 /bin/tar
thor#


=> needless to say that on a system without "tar" not many things work... 
_):

After some repairs, "dpkg -c tar_1.11.8-11.deb" shows:
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 Mar 18 09:43 1997 ./
[...]
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 Mar 18 09:43 1997 bin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     77936 Mar 18 09:43 1997 bin/tar



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Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Ian Jackson and others <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
Bug#10026; Package dpkg. (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Ian Jackson and others <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>. (full text, mbox, link).

Message #10 received at 10026@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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Can you still reproduce this bug?

Wichert.

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Bug#10026. (full text, mbox, link).

Bug closed, ack sent to submitter - they'd better know why ! Request was from Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).

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Debian Bug report logs - #10026 Serious problem after installing tar.

Debian Bug report logs - #10026
Serious problem after installing tar.