Processed: Bug#616502 marked as pending

Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: tag 616502 pending Bug #616502 [dpkg] dpkg: malloc failed (-1739558537 bytes): Cannot allocate memory for file = 2 GiB Added tag(s) pending. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 616502:

Bug#616502: marked as pending

tag 616502 pending thanks Hello, Bug #616502 reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository. You can see the changelog below, and you can check the diff of the fix at: http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=94bf966 --- commit 94bf966f04a6c4b262544f4cf6f8442379c821d1

Bug#616609: /usr/bin/dpkg-deb: Please document that --fsys-tarfile /dev/stdin will work (dpkg-deb will never seek)

Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.8.10 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/dpkg-deb dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile /dev/stdin seems to work, but it would help to have some guarantee in the documentation that it will always work, and dpkg-deb will never seek on the input. - Josh Triplett -- System Information:

Bug#616609: /usr/bin/dpkg-deb: Please document that --fsys-tarfile /dev/stdin will work (dpkg-deb will never seek)

Hi, On Sat, 05 Mar 2011, Josh Triplett wrote: dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile /dev/stdin seems to work, but it would help to have some guarantee in the documentation that it will always work, and dpkg-deb will never seek on the input. Help for what? What's your use case? I don't really see the