Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: normal
When there's an error on a line in </etc/apt/preferences> and apt-get returns the error: 'E: Invalid record in the preferences file, no Package header', the above message does not include any reference to which particular line that error message is referring to. Making this error message more explicitly useful would be simple IMO, and in line with general good coding practice(?) As well, </etc/apt/preferences> would seem to be especially amenable to being corrected with such an error message in hand. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux 2.4.17 #1 Sun Feb 10 05:31:04 EST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-17 The GNU stdc++ library -- no debconf information
