On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Andre Majorel wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.5.27 > Severity: normal > > Installing a certain package causes apt-get and apt-cache to > become essentially non-functional. > > # apt-cache search x > E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1) > # apt-get remove foobar > 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. > > Here is the /var/lib/dpkg/status entry for the package that > triggers the bug (names mangled as they are irrelevant).
apt only supports paragraph sizes < 32k(or some such number, I forget what it is).
