Bug#1016143: dpkg --audit could report more errors, especially those reported elsewhere already

[Thorsten Glaser]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.20.11
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de

I had a filesystem corruption (had to run e2fsck -D for some reason, the
filesystem was otherwise intact, fresh install) that resulted in…

dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'libv4l-0:amd64' is missing final newline

… during an apt-get --purge dist-upgrade (which only updated firefox
and linux) or rather preventing it.

This was not spotted by dpkg --audit, which I had run after the fsck.
It probably can easily be added there?

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-14-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C.UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.8-4
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u3
ii liblzma5 5.2.5-2.1~deb11u1
ii libselinux1 3.1-3
ii tar 1.34+dfsg-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2+deb11u1

dpkg recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii apt 2.2.4
pn debsig-verify <none>

-- no debconf information