Public bug reported: On Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS command dpkg version 1.16.1.2ubuntu7.7 seems to experience issues when updating packages.
In one instance the status file seems to have over a thousand lines that have been truncated. It only seems to truncate package comments that are indented with two spaces. No indent or single space indent lines are all fine but lines that have a double space get truncated. They are not gone in the file they are just replaced by a line that has two spaces and a new line. Programmatically I would describe the problem as in perhaps a failure in reading the comment from the source and writing an empty string into the target: Comment = read_comment(next_line); fprintf(Status, " %s\n", Comment); So if there was an error in read_comment and function returned an empty string "", this would explain why some lines were getting truncated. ** Affects: dpkg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1611133 Title: dpkg truncates lines in 'status' file which begin with two spaces. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/1611133/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs