The reason that we reopened this bug report is that we are seeing duplicates of it reported from precise users, which should have a fixed version of apt installed. Using the tool lp-bug-dupe-properties from lptools we can see the following:
./lp-bug-dupe-properties --bug 346386 --rtags … precise: 946692 948744 967411 989262 989270 989293 989602 996030 1001769 1001932 1006103 Of those bug 1006103 has the most details. I am also able to recreate this bug by performing the following steps: 1) Edit some packages file in /var/lib/apt/lists/ to be missing a Package: line or just remove the whole file 2) Run 'sudo apt-get update' 3) Observe the message 'Encountered a section with no Package: header' … 'Problem with MergeList' I took the above steps instead of trying to create a proxy server that would block access to the archive. Even if this test is bad it is still worrisome that we are actively receiving duplicates of this bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346386 Title: [MASTER] Update fails with invalid package files with "Encountered a section with no Package: header" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/346386/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
