Fix up some signed char vs int issues that show up on powerpc.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/dpkg.c b/dpkg.c
index 18742e8f6..0010df537 100644
--- a/dpkg.c
+++ b/dpkg.c
@@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ extern int dpkg_main(int argc, char **argv)
 
 	package_t *p, *packages = NULL;
 	void *status = NULL;
-	char opt = 0;
+	int opt = 0;
 	int optflag = 0;
 
 	while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "iruc")) != -1) {