libstring-approx-perl broke updating Woody to Sarge
Help!
I inadvertantly started upgrading my Woody system to Sarge when the new
Sarge packages started showing up as security updates (I assume, since
security.debian.org is in my apt sources list file).
In any case, I decided to go and attempt the upgrade, and have run into
the following problem now when attempting to use apt-get or dpkg or
aptitude:
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 41026
package `libstring-approx-perl':
field name `Sectch' must be followed by colon
I'm kinda in a catch-22, since even dpkg -l will abort with that error,
nor can I seem to install or remove packages, as that error will come
up.
Note my oversight that I never did put "Sarge" in my sources.list.
Is there a way I can fix this without restoring from backup?
This is a m68k system.
cc: debain-user.
Thanks,
--Lance
LanceTag at Luminet dot net
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