Package: apt Version: 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 Severity: normal Hi,
apt-cache does not like moving the Description field to an external file as done on deb http://ftp-master.debian.org/newdists unstable main contrib non-free It displays something broken (in squeeze) or just an error message (in testing): In squeeze: ------------------------------------------------------- % apt-cache show clive Package: clive Priority: optional Section: utils Installed-Size: 208 Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: all Version: 2.2.13-5+squeeze3 Depends: perl, libclass-singleton-perl (>= 1.4), libgetopt-argvfile-perl (>= 1.11), libconfig-tiny-perl (>= 2.12), libwww-curl-perl (>= 4.05), libhtml-parser-perl (>= 2.37), liburi-perl (>= 1.37), libexpect-perl (>= 1.20) Recommends: clive-utils, libberkeleydb-perl (>= 0.34), libterm-readkey-perl Suggests: ffmpeg Filename: pool/main/c/clive/clive_2.2.13-5+squeeze3_all.deb Size: 58112 MD5sum: 99babb26a99548e9ead01779eb3a6d31 SHA1: 684dda50fc2b6aa4a331705875d3094b80a5f071 SHA256: f1c52a9080bd3111d4ee7ea38d0c1b27cd78cb52064ed908cbc6eeefa38723e5 Description-en: video extraction utility for YouTube, Google Video and others clive is a command line utility for extracting videos from Youtube and other video sharing Web sites. It was originally written to bypass the Adobe Flash requirement needed to view the hosted videos. It is non-interactive, meaning it can work in the background while the user is not logged on. This allows the user to start an extraction and disconnect from the system, letting clive finish the work. Homepage: http://clive.googlecode.com/ Tag: implemented-in::perl, interface::commandline, network::client, protocol::http, role::program, scope::utility, use::downloading, works-with::video Package: clive Version: 2.2.27-1 Installed-Size: 113 Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: all Depends: perl, libclass-singleton-perl (>= 1.4), libgetopt-argvfile-perl, libconfig-tiny-perl, libwww-curl-perl, libhtml-parser-perl (>= 2.37), liburi-perl (>= 1.37), libexpect-perl, perl (>= 5.10.1) | libversion-perl (>= 1:0.7700) Recommends: clive-utils, libberkeleydb-perl, libterm-readkey-perl Suggests: ffmpeg Homepage: http://clive.sourceforge.net/ Description-md5: 7ea25ba60e492e5f91b18058bf1e35ad Tag: implemented-in::perl, interface::commandline, network::client, protocol::http, role::program, scope::utility, use::downloading, works-with::video Section: utils Priority: optional Filename: pool/main/c/clive/clive_2.2.27-1_all.deb Size: 39284 MD5sum: c0d53536f5de02b0816edf20b459355c SHA1: f9c93a3c752eb14eb0f7ea658a64235ffa6bd877 SHA256: 301c3bbdf1445cec07eed8e3bc80078d2a8c8cbb9c7b3cb4c6e05e4d98bd05cd Flash requirement needed to view the hosted videos. It is nE: Handler silently failed ------------------------------------------------------- The second entry comes from newdists/ and is obviously broken. On testing: ------------------------------------------------------- # apt-cache show gnome-terminal E: Handler silently failed ------------------------------------------------------- Not everything is broken: upgrading still works and aptitude also shows the correct description. Regards, Ansgar -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> (no description available) ii aptitude 0.6.3-3.2+squeeze1 terminal-based package manager (te ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.11 Debian package development tools ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in ii python-apt 0.7.100.1+squeeze1 Python interface to libapt-pkg -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org