Bug#732746: apt: Empty /etc/apt/preferences file is not allowed

2013-12-21 Thread Michael Vogt
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:51:35PM +, Will Marler wrote: Package: apt Version: 0.9.7.9+deb7u1 Severity: normal Thanks for your bugreport. [..] The bug can be reproduced quite simply by putting a single comment in /etc/apt/preferences. For example: # This file is maintained by

Bug#732746: apt: Empty /etc/apt/preferences file is not allowed

2013-12-20 Thread Will Marler
Package: apt Version: 0.9.7.9+deb7u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I was configuring Puppet to manage a number of nodes. Puppetlabs has an 'apt' module, and they use code fragments in