Bug#201679: marked as done (apt-get: dpkg cannot parse 'Depends' field of bsh)
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From: Jaana Heino <jaana.heino@iki.fi>
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Subject: apt-get: dpkg cannot parse 'Depends' field of bsh
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:01:20 +0300
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Package: apt-get
Version: 0.5.5.1
Trying to run apt-get dist-upgrade or apt-get install <foo> results in the=
=20
following error message each time:
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 46772 packag=
e=20
`bsh': `Depends' field, invalid package name `j=A4': character `=A4' not al=
lowed=20
=2D only letters, digits and -+._ allowed
(The character there looks like an euro sign on my screen.)
Here's an example:
jabberwocky:/home/janka# apt-get install reportbug
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
python2.2-optik
Suggested packages:
postfix pgp debsums
The following NEW packages will be installed:
python2.2-optik reportbug
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 22 not upgraded.
3 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/143kB of archives.
After unpacking 565kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 46772 packag=
e=20
`bsh':
`Depends' field, invalid package name `j=A4': character `=A4' not allowed =
=2D only=20
letters, digits and -+._ allowed
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
jabberwocky:/home/janka#
I run unstable, Linux Kernel version is 2.4.20, shared C-library =20
libc-2.3.1.so.
This seems to me like a possible locale-related problem. Most of my locales=
=20
are set to fi_FI@euro:=20
LANG=3Dfi_FI@euro
LC_CTYPE=3Dfi_FI
LC_NUMERIC=3D"fi_FI@euro"
LC_TIME=3D"fi_FI@euro"
LC_COLLATE=3D"fi_FI@euro"
LC_MONETARY=3D"fi_FI@euro"
LC_MESSAGES=3Den_US
LC_PAPER=3D"fi_FI@euro"
LC_NAME=3D"fi_FI@euro"
LC_ADDRESS=3D"fi_FI@euro"
LC_TELEPHONE=3D"fi_FI@euro"
LC_MEASUREMENT=3D"fi_FI@euro"
LC_IDENTIFICATION=3D"fi_FI@euro"
LC_ALL=3D
Doing "export LANG=3DC" (that resulted to the following locales) and retryi=
ng=20
produced the same error message, though:
LANG=3DC
LC_CTYPE=3Dfi_FI
LC_NUMERIC=3D"C"
LC_TIME=3D"C"
LC_COLLATE=3D"C"
LC_MONETARY=3D"C"
LC_MESSAGES=3Den_US
LC_PAPER=3D"C"
LC_NAME=3D"C"
LC_ADDRESS=3D"C"
LC_TELEPHONE=3D"C"
LC_MEASUREMENT=3D"C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION=3D"C"
LC_ALL=3D
This problem has started somewhere during the last week; unfortunately I=20
cannot remember the exact date of my last working update, but in any case i=
t=20
was not much longer ago than one, max two, weeks.=20
Best regards,
=2D-=20
Jaana Heino
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From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
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Subject: Corrupted available file
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The submitter reported, via private mail to me, that after replacing the
problematic part the available file with a known-correct one, the problem
went away. I conclude that the available file was simply corrupt, and dpkg
was correct in rejecting it.
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- mdz
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