I remember a discussion 2 months ago about dpkg producing en error

tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
/sw/bin/dpkg-deb: subprocess tar returned error exit status 2

I thought this was fixed, but I am seeing it now, with dpkg- 
1.10.21-1238 on 10.9. What is weird is that fink's use of dpkg does 
actually work, namely 'dpkg-lockwait -i' does not give the error.

Otherwise, I get the error with 'dpkg -c', 'dpkg -x', 'dpkg -i'. For 
example:

costabel% sudo dpkg -i 
/sw/fink/debs/fink_0.35.99.git-20131025.0654_darwin-x86_64.deb
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
/sw/bin/dpkg-deb: subprocess tar returned error exit status 2
/sw/bin/dpkg: error processing 
/sw/fink/debs/fink_0.35.99.git-20131025.0654_darwin-x86_64.deb (--install):
  subprocess /sw/bin/dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
  /sw/fink/debs/fink_0.35.99.git-20131025.0654_darwin-x86_64.deb

But:

costabel% sudo dpkg-lockwait -i 
/sw/fink/debs/fink_0.35.99.git-20131025.0654_darwin-x86_64.deb
(Reading database ... 204220 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace fink 0.35.99.git-20131025.0654 (using 
.../fink_0.35.99.git-20131025.0654_darwin-x86_64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement fink ...
Setting up fink (0.35.99.git-20131025.0654) ...

What is going on?

-- 
Martin

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