Package: iproute2 Version: 4.3.0-1+b1 Severity: normal Hi there!
It looks like there is an error in the git repository for debian packaging for iproute2: 0 dkg@alice:~/src/iproute2$ debcheckout iproute2 declared git repository at git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/pkg-iproute.git git clone git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/pkg-iproute.git iproute2 ... Cloning into 'iproute2'... remote: Counting objects: 13601, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4151/4151), done. error: object 4964fb2c5f519488d6270459e773ac1d4d1bf44a: missingSpaceBeforeDate: invalid author/committer line - missing space before date fatal: Error in object fatal: index-pack failed checkout failed (the command above returned a non-zero exit code) 128 dkg@alice:~/src/iproute2$ note that i have the following in ~/.gitconfig to detect errors in git repositories: [transfer] fsckobjects = true [fetch] fsckobjects = true [receive] fsckobjects = true If it's possible, please clean up the git repo so that it doesn't have this error. Thanks, --dkg -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages iproute2 depends on: ii libc6 2.22-11 ii libdb5.3 5.3.28-11 ii libselinux1 2.5-3 Versions of packages iproute2 recommends: pn libatm1 <none> ii libxtables11 1.6.0-2 Versions of packages iproute2 suggests: pn iproute2-doc <none> -- no debconf information