severity 842853 normal thanks Thanks for your report! But this really has nothing to do with gcl, but the mips64 autobuilder. Will reassign this later.
Take care, Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> writes: > Package: gcl > Version: 2.6.12-45 > Severity: serious > Justification: not installable > User: helm...@debian.org > Usertags: rebootstrap > > While conducing multiarch qa, I noticed that gcl fails to install on > mips64el: > > | Preparing to unpack .../142-gcl_2.6.12-45_mips64el.deb ... > | Unpacking gcl (2.6.12-45) ... > | dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive member: lzma error: compressed > data is corrupt > | dpkg-deb: error: subprocess <decompress> returned error exit status 2 > | dpkg: error processing archive > /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-lpU46F/142-gcl_2.6.12-45_mips64el.deb (--unpack): > | subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 > | Errors were encountered while processing: > | /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-lpU46F/142-gcl_2.6.12-45_mips64el.deb > | W: No sandbox user '_apt' on the system, can not drop privileges > | E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > | Command apt-get --assume-yes -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confnew install -- > gcl exited with exit code 1. > > A dpkg-deb -c on the binary package yields: > > | dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive member: lzma error: compressed > data is corrupt > | tar: A lone zero block at 506776 > | dpkg-deb: error: subprocess <decompress> returned error exit status 2 > > xz -t data.tar.xz > > | xz: data.tar.xz: Compressed data is corrupt > > Something is seriously broken about the binary package (and possibly the > buildd that was used to build it). > > This is not the first time that some mips* box produces broken binary > packages. mips porters X-Debbugs-Cced. Most likely binNMUing "fixes" > this problem, but we should really figure out why this is happening. > > Helmut > > > > -- Camm Maguire c...@maguirefamily.org ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah
