Am Sa., 25. Aug. 2018 um 22:39 Uhr schrieb Alan W. Irwin
<alan.w.irwin1...@gmail.com>:
>
> For those (like me, it is a long story) who want to delay doing a full
> system update of Buster, I confirm that
>
> apt-get install --reinstall libappstream4
>
> fixed this severe problem in Debian Buster for me.
>
> I am surprised this issue migrated from Debian unstable to Buster at
> all. According to <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/appstream>,
> 0.12.2-1 (the version with this severe bug that affects all apt-get
> updates) [...]
The bug was in there for a really long time, but it needed the right
conditions to be exposed. In this case it was the "stellarium" package
being updated with a new version that had an empty content_rating XML
tag, which resulted in some chaos in libappstream's caching code which
relied on list items being there to guess the right container type.
Cheers,
Matthias
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