Public bug reported:
Hi everyone,
I spent the last few hours mounting and repairing my system from LiveCD because
of a failed update to 11.04. The reason why my system got corrupted was a
parsing error in /var/lib/dpkg/status and /available. It was caused by a .deb
package (compiz-switch) with a "Priority: low" annotation. Of course this is an
error of the .deb, but it seems to me that the dpkg parser is too strict in
marking it as junk and hanging the whole system on it. Everything worked fine
under 10.10. If the parser would treat any priorities it doesn't understand as
"optional", I would be happy.
** Affects: dpkg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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parser too strict
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