Bug#201679: apt-get: dpkg cannot parse 'Depends' field of bsh

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:01:20AM +0300, Jaana Heino wrote:

> Trying to run apt-get dist-upgrade or apt-get install <foo> results in the 
> following error message each time:
> 
> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 46772 package 
> `bsh': `Depends' field, invalid package name `j?': character `?' not allowed 
> - only letters, digits and -+._ allowed
> 
> (The character there looks like an euro sign on my screen.)

Have you checked /var/lib/dpkg/available to see whether it really does
contain that character sequence?  Perhaps it is corrupted.

-- 
 - mdz