Debian Bug Tracking System said: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > #147183: spong-common: can't install package, > which was filed against the dpkg package. > > It has been closed by one of the developers, namely > Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > Their explanation is attached below. If this explanation is > unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate > message then please contact the developer, by replying to this email. > > Debian bug tracking system administrator > (administrator, Debian Bugs database) > > Received: (at 147183-done) by bugs.debian.org; 10 Oct 2002 13:44:44 > +0000 >>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Oct 10 08:44:44 2002 > Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.54] > by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) > id 17zdcK-0004gR-00; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:44:44 -0500 > Received: from localhost.localdomain ([213.75.115.205]) by > smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id > H3RQ5O02.B09 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 10 Oct > 2002 15:44:12 +0200 > Subject: done > From: Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 > Date: 10 Oct 2002 15:44:16 +0200 > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The fact that running tar (on anything) before running dpkg > makes a difference indicates clearly that the problem was > some sort of system flakiness. > > Closing. Please forgive me and reopen if you now think > that there really is a bug in dpkg. > > -- > Thomas
Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's a problem with the system and it's not dpkg's fault. -- Kurt Yoder Sport & Health network administrator
