Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
This has me puzzled: firewall:/var/lib/dpkg# apt-get update < snip a dozen package/Release hits for stable and testing > Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done firewall:/var/lib/dpkg# dpkg --configure bsdmainutils Setting up bsdmainutils (5.20020211-8) ... firewall:/var/lib/dpkg# apt-get update < snip a dozen package/Release hits for stable and testing > Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1) E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. This is the diff between a working and a non-working status file: --- status.good 2002-10-29 15:20:40.000000000 +0100 +++ status 2002-10-29 15:30:56.000000000 +0100 @@ -45706,13 +45706,12 @@ Section: admin Package: bsdmainutils -Status: install ok unpacked +Status: install ok installed Priority: important Section: utils Installed-Size: 564 Maintainer: Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 5.20020211-8 -Config-Version: 5.20020211-7 Replaces: bsdutils (<< 3.0-0) Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13), libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20020112a-1), bsdutils (>= 3.0-0), debianutils (>= 1.8), debconf Suggests: cpp, wenglish | wordlist, whois, vacation The result is definitely a normal status file. Wichert. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux thunder 2.4.19-pre5-ac3-freeswan196 #1 Mon Apr 15 23:03:51 CEST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-11.2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library
