forcemerge 642802 651334 thanks On Wed, 07 Dec 2011, n...@cantrip.org wrote: > I upgraded dpkg from 1.16.0.3 to 1.16.1.2, and was then > unable to install, upgrade, or downgrade any other package, > or dpkg itself. This turns out to have been because my > version of tar was 1.22-2, which did not understand the > argument "--warning=no-timestamp" apparently passed by dpkg.
Already reported in #642802 and fixed in git master (dpkg 1.16.2) with a pre-dependency on the corresponding tar version. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Pre-order a copy of the Debian Administrator's Handbook and help liberate it: http://debian-handbook.info/liberation/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org