Bug#722710: apt: Incorrect error message for missing data.tar.* segment.

2013-09-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting David Kalnischkies (kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com): > That was me and at the time I wrote this it was a big gain because this > code was to be backported to squeeze and I am pretty sure our chessy > l10n god would have killed me otherwise (and I value my life). ;) Scary bubulle and His Mi

Bug#722710: apt: Incorrect error message for missing data.tar.* segment.

2013-09-13 Thread Len Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:37:22PM -0400, David Kalnischkies wrote: > That was me and at the time I wrote this it was a big gain because this > code was to be backported to squeeze and I am pretty sure our chessy > l10n god would have killed me otherwise (and I value my life). ;) > And as I didn't

Bug#722710: apt: Incorrect error message for missing data.tar.* segment.

2013-09-13 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Len Sorensen wrote: > Please get the string updated. It is very confusing when you encounter > it as it is now. The gain is not nearly as small as whoever wrote that > comment thought it was. That was me and at the time I wrote this it was a big gain because thi

Bug#722710: apt: Incorrect error message for missing data.tar.* segment.

2013-09-13 Thread Len Sorensen
Package: apt Version: 0.9.11.3 Severity: normal I just spent half an hour trying to figure out why I was getting the error: E: This is not a valid DEB archive, it has no 'data.tar.gz', 'data.tar.bz2' or 'data.tar.lzma' member Given I knew the package in question was supposed to use .xz, I figur