Hi Jonathan

dpkg is version 1.16.0.3

Regards

  Matthias

On 08/25/11 11:51, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> reassign 639229 dpkg
> quit
> 
> Rene Engelhard wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 08:50:03AM +0200, Matthias Cramer wrote:
> 
>>> When upgrading to the newest package, dpkg fails to unpack the .deb file:
>>>
>>> Preparing to replace libreoffice-base 1:3.3.4-1 (using .../libreoffice-
>>> base_1%3a3.3.4-2_amd64.deb) ...
>>> Unpacking replacement libreoffice-base ...
>>> dpkg: ../../src/archives.c:824: tarobject: Assertion `r == stab.st_size'
>>> failed.
>>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly
>>
>> If at all, this is a dpkg bug. What makes you think it's alibreoffice bug?
>> It got properly packed by dpkg-deb as anything else.
> 
> Yes, an assertion failure in dpkg is by definition a dpkg bug (barring
> hardware failures, etc).  Thanks for passing it on.
> 
> Matthias, what version of dpkg do you use?


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