* apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc:

 - do not report errors encountered when decompressing packages

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc b/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc
index f8758ea0a..4f2b35a01 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
 #include <sys/wait.h>
 #include <signal.h>
 #include <errno.h>
-#include <string.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <algorithm>
@@ -1366,6 +1365,12 @@ void pkgDPkgPM::WriteApportReport(const char *pkgpath, const char *errormsg)
       return;
    }
 
+   // do not report errors encountered when decompressing packages
+   if(strstr(errormsg, "--fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2") != NULL) {
+      std::clog << _("No apport report written because the error message indicates an issue on the local system") << std::endl;
+      return;
+   }
+
    // do not report dpkg I/O errors, this is a format string, so we compare
    // the prefix and the suffix of the error with the dpkg error message
    vector<string> io_errors;