The lutimes function doesn't work properly for all systems. Signed-off-by: Constantin Musca Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [embedded specific] Index: dpkg-1.16.8/src/archives.c =================================================================== --- dpkg-1.16.8.orig/src/archives.c +++ dpkg-1.16.8/src/archives.c @@ -440,8 +440,10 @@ tarobject_set_mtime(struct tar_entry *te if (te->type == tar_filetype_symlink) { #ifdef HAVE_LUTIMES +/* if (lutimes(path, tv) && errno != ENOSYS) ohshite(_("error setting timestamps of `%.255s'"), path); +*/ #endif } else { if (utimes(path, tv))