On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > I sat down to reproduce this, and it seems that it works perfectly well with > an empty file. The problem does occur, however, with a file containing only > a newline. > > My guess was that the apt-build Packages files, which triggered this bug for > most of the submitters, also contain only a newline. So I installed > apt-build to find out (which kindly diverted my gcc and all sorts of other > fun stuff). The result: > > So, should a Packages file with only whitespace be as valid as an empty one? > If not, this is an apt-build bug. > > At any rate, this fixes the problem for me:
I'd say it's an apt-build bug. Does dpkg handle this case correctly?
