Re: [Bug 916799] [NEW] Blank line in previously installed packagedescription causes 12.04 upgrade failurt

2012-01-16 Thread Raphaƫl Hertzog
Hello, On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, D. Wegener wrote: While attempting to upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 the version of dpkg used by Ubuntu was upgraded. The new version was unable to parse my /var/lib/dpkg/status and /var/lib/dpkg/available files. Under 11.10, I had installed a package from Lexmark

[Bug 916799] [NEW] Blank line in previously installed packagedescription causes 12.04 upgrade failurt

2012-01-15 Thread D. Wegener
Public bug reported: While attempting to upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 the version of dpkg used by Ubuntu was upgraded. The new version was unable to parse my /var/lib/dpkg/status and /var/lib/dpkg/available files. Under 11.10, I had installed a package from Lexmark for a printer driver that had