According to the upstream bug this has been fixed in Lucid.
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Released-- apt-ftparchive, apt-extracttemplates fail on packages created with GNU ar https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/308317 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
