I'm seeing this bug on Ubuntu bionic 18.04 with dpkg v.1.19.0.5ubuntu2.
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release: 18.04
$ sudo apt-cache policy dpkg
dpkg:
Installed: 1.19.0.5ubuntu2
Candidate: 1.19.0.5ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 1.19.0.5ubuntu2 500
500 http://<internal repo pointing to
us.rsync.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/>/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ sudo dpkg -i <file>.deb
dpkg-deb: error: archive '<file>.deb' has premature member 'data.tar.gz' before
'control.tar', giving up
dpkg: error processing archive <file>.deb (--install):
dpkg-deb --control subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
<file>.deb
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xz compressed control.tar files not supported
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