Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.24 Severity: normal Something strange is happening here: "dpkg --verify" complains about the file /usr/share/man/man1/cpp.1.gz (a symlink shipped in the cpp-doc package), but only if the package containing it is _not_ given on the commandline.
,---- | $ dpkg -S /usr/share/man/man1/cpp.1.gz | cpp-doc: /usr/share/man/man1/cpp.1.gz | $ dpkg --verify cpp-doc | $ dpkg --verify 2>/dev/null | grep cpp | ??5?????? /usr/share/man/man1/cpp.1.gz `---- -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: amd64 Kernel: Linux 4.12.7-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-8.1 ii libc6 2.24-14 ii liblzma5 5.2.2-1.3 ii libselinux1 2.6-3+b2 ii tar 1.29b-2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 1.5~beta1 pn debsig-verify <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg changed: no-debsig log /var/log/dpkg.log -- no debconf information
