Re: UNSTABLE USERS: dpkg, doc-linux-html, and MD5sum fields

[Joseph Dane <jdane@lava.net>]

>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:

 Colin> I'm getting three or four reports a day about errors like
 Colin> this: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available'
 Colin> near line 88004 package doc-linux-html': empty file details
 Colin> field `MD5sum' E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error
 Colin> code (2)

I was bit by this.  my 'solution' was to delete the offending MD5Sum
line from /var/lib/dpkg/availble.  this seemed to work OK for me, but
YMMV. 

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joe