Public bug reported:

We see quite a few messages like this from the publisher:

  W: Malformed override /srv/launchpad.net/ubuntu-archive/ubuntu-
overrides/override.quantal.extra.main line 14628 #2

These correspond to override lines that are too long.  This example is:

  libmng1/powerpc Task    ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-usb, kubuntu-desktop,
kubuntu-active-desktop, kubuntu-active, edubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-
desktop-kde, edubuntu-usb, xubuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-frontend,
mythbuntu-frontend, mythbuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-backend-slave,
mythbuntu-backend-slave, mythbuntu-backend-master, mythbuntu-backend-
master, ubuntustudio-generation, ubuntustudio-video, ubuntustudio-audio-
plugins, ubuntustudio-publishing, ubuntustudio-photography,
ubuntustudio-graphics, ubuntustudio-recording

This carries over into truncated Task fields in Packages files.

Override::ReadOverride currently has "char Line[500]", which is the
cause of this.  Ideally, this code would handle arbitrary-length lines.
However, in practice, the maximum line length we're seeing in quantal is
594, so simply doubling this to 1000 would do nicely for now.

** Affects: apt (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
         Status: Triaged

** Affects: apt (Ubuntu Lucid)
     Importance: High
         Status: Triaged

** Affects: apt (Ubuntu Precise)
     Importance: High
         Status: Triaged

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  Maximum override line length is too short

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