Re: Problem with dselect

[Emmanuel Fleury <emmanuel.fleury@labri.fr>]

Ozzy Lash wrote:
> I get the same thing (different line number, but same package).
> Looking at the line right above the line it complains about is a file
> location that contains a space (and a pair of parentheses).  My guess
> is the dpkg is getting confused by this.  I looked at
> http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/b/beep-media-player
> (0.9.7.1+cvs20050803-1.1)/
> and it exists.

Right.

The amd64 version of 'available' displays:

Filename: pool/main/b/beep-media-player
(0.9.7.1+cvs20050803-1.1)/beep-media-player_0.9.7.1+cvs20050803-1.1+b1_amd64.deb

Where the i386 version displays:

Filename:
pool/main/b/beep-media-player/beep-media-player_0.9.7.1+cvs20050803-1.1+b1_i386.deb

All the special characters have been ruled out...
Seems like a big mistake in the 'available' file. Somebody didn't filter
out the bad characters. :)

I can see few others:

Filename: pool/main/b/beep-media-player
(0.9.7.1+cvs20050803-1.1)/beep-media-player_0.9.7.1+cvs20050803-1.1+b1_amd64.deb
Filename: pool/main/b/beep-media-player
(0.9.7.1+cvs20050803-1.1)/beep-media-player-dev_0.9.7.1+cvs20050803-1.1+b1_amd64.deb
Filename: pool/main/k/k3d (0.5.0.35-1.2)/k3d_0.5.0.35-1.2+b1_amd64.deb
Filename: pool/main/k/k3d (0.5.0.35-1.2)/k3d-dev_0.5.0.35-1.2+b1_amd64.deb

And it's only parenthesis. I guess there are others.

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