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Package: dselect
Version: 1.10.10
Severity: normal
When updating packages list, the process fails at the end :
[...]
Merging Available information
Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available.
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/cache/apt/available' near line 247256
package `acheck-rules-fr':
too many values in file details field `MD5sum' (compared to others)
update available list script returned error exit status 2.
Press <enter> to continue.
Actually, the "Description:..." line of acheck-rules-fr is missing (I
already wrote to the package maintainer about this).
However, this is a dselect bug. IMHO, dselect should be able to skip
the incriminated package instead of blocking update of all other
(correct) packages ! It makes dselect completely unusable.
For this reason, this bug should be rated "important" but I don't
think the situation should appear in a stable distribution. This is the
reason why I only rated it "normal".
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux mpc140 2.4.20 #1 mer mai 14 18:22:59 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro
Versions of packages dselect depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.1-0pre0 GCC support library
ii libncurses5 5.3.20030510-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.1-0pre0 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
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--- Begin Message ---
Control: tags -1 wontfix
Hi!
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 10:32:32 +0200, Nicolas Sabouret wrote:
> Package: dselect
> Version: 1.10.10
> Severity: normal
> When updating packages list, the process fails at the end :
> [...]
> Merging Available information
> Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available.
> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/cache/apt/available' near line 247256
> package `acheck-rules-fr':
> too many values in file details field `MD5sum' (compared to others)
>
> update available list script returned error exit status 2.
> Press <enter> to continue.
>
> Actually, the "Description:..." line of acheck-rules-fr is missing (I
> already wrote to the package maintainer about this).
>
> However, this is a dselect bug. IMHO, dselect should be able to skip
> the incriminated package instead of blocking update of all other
> (correct) packages ! It makes dselect completely unusable.
> For this reason, this bug should be rated "important" but I don't
> think the situation should appear in a stable distribution. This is the
> reason why I only rated it "normal".
I don't think dpkg should be more tolerant to bogus metadata, to the
contrary, I'd rather make it more strict so that we don't get garbage
into the database and the ecosystem in general. I'm thus going to
close this. Sorry!
Thanks,
Guillem
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