On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Josip Rodin wrote: > I did 'apt-get source netbase', wanting to get the 'unstable' version > of that source package, but the download didn't go as smooth as I wanted, > so I interrupted it once or twice with Ctrl+C, and restarted it.
Well, one part of this problem was recently fixed in CVS, instead of dpkg-source giving an error apt-get will give an MD5 error. As for why/how the file got corrupted <shrug> no explanation and if you can't reproduce it then there isn't any way to know if it is even an APT bug. Jason
