WorksForMe™
Maybe I just didn't understand the recommendation correctly, definitely not
arguing your call here.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/978587
Title:
apt should ensure .deb ar
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