[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#489026: tcl8.5: short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/lib/libtcl8.5.so.0') when installing

[Sandro Tosi]

Package: tcl8.5
Version: 8.5.2-2
Severity: important

Hello,
this is the apt-get log when installing tcl8.5:

# apt-get install tcl8.5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  tclreadline
The following packages will be upgraded:
  tcl8.5
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1571kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
database /var/lib/apt/listchanges.db failed to load.
(Reading database ... 249082 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace tcl8.5 8.5.2-2 (using .../tcl8.5_8.5.2-3_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement tcl8.5 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tcl8.5_8.5.2-3_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/lib/libtcl8.5.so.0')
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/tcl8.5_8.5.2-3_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Let me know if I can help solve it somehow.

Kindly,
Sandro

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages tcl8.5 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-12     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

tcl8.5 recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information