Bug#106646: got wrong 'available' from ftp.at.debian.org
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.3
Severity: normal
Tags: woody
I was upgrading my system (with dselect, using apt, getting packages from
ftp.at.debian.org) today Thu Jul 26 2001.
pressing Install in dselect caused dpkg to write error messages about
parsing /var/lib/dpkg/available.
editing this file i mentioned 2 packages with wrong headers:
Package: man2html
Version: 1.5-23
AND
Package: procmail
Version: 3.21-1
both of theese had 2 empty lines somewhere between "^Package:" and
"^Description:"
I don't know if I'm right here with this bug. it has also to do with
2 other packages. I think that (before attempt to install) files like
available should be parsed by "apt-get update" or the distributing server.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux deb01 2.2.19-ide #1 Sun Jun 24 15:26:24 EST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=de, LC_CTYPE=de
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.3-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.010424 The GNU stdc++ library
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