Bug#546723: apt-get fails to install the package, Synaptic does

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:32:56AM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> Dumps are below. Replacing the local file with a new one solved the problem. That could
> be useful in other situations. For instance, why not creating regular backups before
> editing?

We could do that, sure, but you need to keep in mind there's 3 packages right
now doing stuff with services.rdb in the maintainer scripts and that might
increase, which means depending on where it broke it might be too late
becuase the second/third etc. may already do stuff on the new file and
overwrite a good backup file with the broken one.

There must be some way to be invented to check the vadility of the file..

Regards,

Rene