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Bug#365819: apt-get update chokes on "Bad header line"



On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:48:29AM +0200, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:52:37AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:20:39AM +0200, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:

> > > apt-get update produces "Bad header line" messages on some files. Note that
> > > this error is not reproduceable always (and happens for different files
> > > although Release.gpg is often among them), sometimes the update runs
> > > successfully,

> > This error certainly isn't reproducible in the general case.

> I can now confirm that only apt-get in etch is affected. My apt-get in
> sarge works perfectly. Anything I can do (e.g. build the apt package
> with debugging turned on) to help you diagnose this problem?

Sorry, I'm afraid not; I was only triaging the bug severity so that it
wasn't marked as a release-critical bug when the vast majority of users are
using apt-get ok, I'm not actually an apt maintainer and don't know the
internals enough to suggest how to debug this.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon@debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/

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