This bug was fixed in the package rpm - 4.7.0-7ubuntu1

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rpm (4.7.0-7ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable, remaining changes:
    - change build depends from libdwarf-dev -> libdw-dev
      (libdwarf-dev is in universe)

rpm (4.7.0-7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Do not touch build system internals, rather create separate build for each
    python (fixes occasional FTBFS).

rpm (4.7.0-6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Drop 22_spelling-fixes.diff, it is not a typo but real description of
    state.
  * Update to policy 3.8.2 (no changes needed).
  * Add symbols file for kfreebsd-i386 (should fix FTBFS).

rpm (4.7.0-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remake symbol files, default is for 32-bit systems and add exceptions for
    64-bit ones, there are fewer of them (fixes FTBFS on armel).
  * Add missing include pthread.h (should fix FTBFS on hurd-i386).
  * Fix more errors in man page.

rpm (4.7.0-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix typo in rpm-i18n description.
  * More complete debian/copyright.
  * Adjust symbol files of librpmio for diffrenent architectures (fixes
    FTBFS).

rpm (4.7.0-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Okay, I'll stop uploading new version every hour.
  * Build depend on libelf-dev, and libdwarf-dev to get debugedit binary
    (LP: #341891).
  * Include lsb-rpmbuild in lsb-rpm package.
  * Update lsb-rpm man page and add lsb-rpmbuild one (Closes: #419870).
  * rpmTagTable is no longer part of API, so it can not be referenced
    (Closes: #476972).
  * Document in lsb-rpmbuild(1) what is needed to build LSB package
    (Closes: #459603).

rpm (4.7.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix watch file.
  * Add librpm-dbg package with debug symbols.
  * Split of locales and localized man pages to rpm-i18n.
  * Fix - escaping in man pages.
  * Actually include module for python 2.4.

rpm (4.7.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New maintainer (Closes: #529558).
  * New Upstream Version (Closes: #519861).
    - Add new libraries to build depends (lzma, nspr, nss, magic).
    - Works correctly with new tar (Closes: #400889).
  * Adjust patches:
    - Dropped 02-hkp-disable.diff
    - Refreshed 09-prereq.diff
    - Refreshed 13-rpm2cpio-help.diff
    - Dropped 14-work-on-debian64.diff
    - Refreshed 16-debian-warn.diff
    - Dropped 19-misc.diff
    - Refreshed 22_spelling-fixes.diff
    - Dropped 40_fix-zlib-include-in-file.patch
    - Refreshed 68_autogen-fixes.patch
    - Refreshed 70_autogen.patch
  * Bump policy to 3.8.1.
  * Switch to debhleper 7.
    - Use debian/clean instead of list in debian/rules.
    - Use debian/links instead of list in debian/rules.
    - Use dh_quilt*.
    - Use dh helper to simplify debian/rules.
  * Man pages can be in utf-8, mandb supports this since  2.5.0-1.
  * Switch to libneon27-gnutls-dev (Closes: #532257).
  * Fix build out out sources.
  * Fix upstream installation of rpm.
  * Do not create lsb-rpm man page by patch, include it directly.
  * Drop not needed source lintian override.
  * Switch to python-support.
  * Rename and split library packages to librpm0, librpmio0 and librpmbuild0.
  * Add symbol files to lib* packages.
  * Add debian/copyright.
  * Improve package descriptions.
  * Fix %{_sysconfdir} macro (Closes: #465871).
  * Fix bashisms (by using bash) (Closes: #530180).
  * Debsums are correct on this package (Closes: #421262).
  * Delete stray directories on purge (Closes: #366186).

rpm (4.4.2.3-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * QA upload.
  * Set maintainer to Debian QA Group.
  * Upload to unstable; closes: #524842

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden>   Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:57:20 +0200