Package: apt Version: 0.3.19 Severity: normal Consider the following simple sources.list:
I'll mark the start and end of a line: ^deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security potato/updates contrib main non-free$ ^ $ ^deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free$ ^deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free$ ^deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free$ ^deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free$ The whitespace in line 2 causes apt-get to fail. It does not matter if this is a tab or multiple spaces, apt-get just fails with: E: Malformed line 2 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (type) -- System Information Debian Release: woody Kernel Version: Linux ds9 2.2.18pre18 #1 Tue Oct 31 16:59:48 CET 2000 i586 unknown Versions of the packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.1.96-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-14 The GNU stdc++ library
