Comment 21 for bug 1730627

I'm seeing this bug on Ubuntu bionic 18.04 with dpkg v.1.19.0.5ubuntu2.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release: 18.04

$ sudo apt-cache policy dpkg
dpkg:
  Installed: 1.19.0.5ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1.19.0.5ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1.19.0.5ubuntu2 500
        500 http://<internal repo pointing to us.rsync.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/>/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ sudo dpkg -i <file>.deb
dpkg-deb: error: archive '<file>.deb' has premature member 'data.tar.gz' before 'control.tar', giving up
dpkg: error processing archive <file>.deb (--install):
 dpkg-deb --control subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 <file>.deb