On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:25:23PM -0500, Donald R. Spoon wrote:
> Bob Nielsen wrote:
> >
> > I just did an upgrade with apt-get and got some strange error message:
> >
> > E: /var/cache/apt/archives/debsigs_0.1.10_all.deb not a valid DEB package.
> >
> > I saw this yesterday as well. The package installation completed, however.
> >
> > Is this an indication that I may have something misconfigured?
> >
> > Bob
>
> I have been getting the same messages here since the installation of the
> signed-package capability about a week ago. It seems to be a
> "information" message only....havn't noticed anything amiss with package
> installs.
This is a bug in apt-extracttemplates. Its author did not read the deb(5)
manpage, and his code incorrectly assumes that a Debian package can have
only components, an assumption which runs afoul of package signatures.
Again, the warning is harmless, and spurious to boot.
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