i'm still experiencing this broken pipe issue with bzr-builddeb 2.2~ubuntu2 every few days.
and it seems it's not limited to python... $ apt-get source tar Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Need to get 2626kB of source archives. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main tar 1.22-1 (dsc) [929B] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main tar 1.22-1 (tar) [2608kB] Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main tar 1.22-1 (diff) [16.8kB] Fetched 2626kB in 0s (8221kB/s) gpgv: Signature made Fri 03 Apr 2009 10:36:14 PM CEST using DSA key ID F2CF01A8 gpgv: Can't check signature: public key not found dpkg-source: warning: failed to verify signature on ./tar_1.22-1.dsc dpkg-source: info: extracting tar in tar-1.22 dpkg-source: info: unpacking tar_1.22.orig.tar.gz gzip: stdout: Broken pipe dpkg-source: error: gunzip gave error exit status 1 Unpack command 'dpkg-source -x tar_1.22-1.dsc' failed. Check if the 'dpkg-dev' package is installed. E: Child process failed -- unpacking the upstream tarball not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399938 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs