On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 02:26:54AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Jurij Smakov wrote:
> > I noticed that as well with today's dailies. This is displayed by
> > tasksel, installer just invokes it in /target. I can also reproduce it
> > on an installed system by running 'tasksel -t'.
>
> Since I can't reproduce this, I can only guess.
>
> tasksel contains a sub list_installed() that parses
> /var/lib/dpkg/status. Perhaps something about the status file format has
> changed?
>
> Parsing the file is a bit gratuitous, so I've attached a patch that
> switches it to dpkg-query. Does it fix the issue?
No, that does not help. I investigated a bit and I believe that the
problem is in getdescriptions() function. In particular, it does the
following while processing the output of "apt-cache show task-${task}":
my ($description)=/^Description-.*: (.*)$/m;
($description)=/^Description: (.*)$/m
unless defined $description;
This inadvertently catches the Description-md5 field (which is new, I
guess?):
# apt-cache show task-desktop | grep Description
Description: Debian desktop environment
Description-md5: 17cb4a1ed6025b48045cc576bf52317c
#
Best regards,
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