Re: Unstable package list at ftp.debian.org is bad

[pausmith@nortelnetworks.com (Paul D. Smith)]

I'm surprised there isn't some kind of automated format checking tool
that makes sure there are no syntax errors in the Packages file before
it's allowed to be uploaded from Incoming into the dist area.  As I
understand it that process is automated for unstable and
already-available packages, so shouldn't the automation verify the syntax?

Having a corruption like this can be quite painful, and should be
trivial to catch.

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