Bug#303030: "parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available'" after update

[Francois Taiani <f.taiani@computer.org>]

Package: dpkg
Severity: normal


After my last update "dpkg -l" does not work any more. Here is what I
get:

----
$ dpkg -l galeon
dpkg-query: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1:
 field name `bgucharmap4,' must be followed by colon
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I did not modify /var/lib/dpkg/available, so I guess one of the programs
accessing this file (synaptic?) must have corrupted it. (I guess this is also the
reason why reportbug was not able to put any package version information
at the end of this bug report.

Francois

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10.guidog-patch2
Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)