Re: [Bug 978587] Re: dpkg should recover more gracefully from decompressing errors

2012-04-11 Thread Janne Jokitalo
WorksForMe™ Maybe I just didn't understand the recommendation correctly, definitely not arguing your call here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/978587 Title: apt should ensure .deb ar

[Bug 978587] Re: dpkg should recover more gracefully from decompressing errors

2012-04-10 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
I don't know who asked you that, but no. dpkg can't recover from a corrupted file... at best it should be the responsibility of apt to ensure that the .deb file it feeds to dpkg are the same than what was expected during download. I'm not sure if there's such a request already in APT's bug list. I