[Bug 1260321] Re: dpkg-deb unable to install/upgrade oracle-java8-installer

[Paul Crawford]

My suggestion is to (ideally) have the later version back-ported to
10.04 so this problem is not an issue for the remaining 1.5 years or so
of "long term support" for such servers, or to make sure Oracle uses the
older style of compression so the package is usable.

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Title:
  dpkg-deb unable to install/upgrade oracle-java8-installer

Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Running a 10.04 LTS machine (32-bit) and it seem that the oracle-
  java8-installer now uses the more recent compression option that is
  not supported by the version of dpkg that is currently used by 10.04

  Indirectly this is a security risk as java is well known for
  vulnerabilities and being unable to update a package when it has come
  through the official repository is a problem!

  Upon running 'apt-get upgrade' this was the error message:

  Preparing to replace oracle-java8-installer 8b115-0~webupd8~0 (using .../oracle-java8-installer_8b119-0~webupd8~0_all.deb) ...
  oracle-license-v1-1 license has already been accepted
  Unpacking replacement oracle-java8-installer ...
  dpkg-deb: file `/var/cache/apt/archives/oracle-java8-installer_8b119-0~webupd8~0_all.deb' contains ununderstood data member data.tar.xz     , giving up
  dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/oracle-java8-installer_8b119-0~webupd8~0_all.deb (--unpack):
   subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2

  System information:

  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
  Release:	10.04

  $ apt-cache policy dpkg
  dpkg:
    Installed: 1.15.5.6ubuntu4.6
    Candidate: 1.15.5.6ubuntu4.6
    Version table:
   *** 1.15.5.6ubuntu4.6 0
          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1.15.5.6ubuntu4.5 0
          500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
       1.15.5.6ubuntu4 0
          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

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