You report: > The alpha version of dpkg segv faults when trying to chown of non-existent > files during the install process. It occurred when I tried installing > xlib6g_3.3.1-2.1 (libICE.so.60 & libXext.so.6.1 didn't exist) and > xbase_3.3.1-2.1 (xinitrc didn't exist).
Were you using i18n ? If so then I can explain this as a combination of a known problem with chown/lchown (see #18147 et al) plus the known i18n segfault-on-error-message. If not then I can't explain the segfault. Your bug is merged with 18147 et al. If you weren't using i18n please get back to me - particularly if the problem is reproduceable in recent dpkgs. Thanks, Ian.
