Re: Badly formed dpkg-status entry.

[Wulfy <wulfmann@tiscali.co.uk>]

Rogério Brito wrote:
> Hi, Wulfy.
>
> On Oct 16 2006, Wulfy wrote:
>   
> > In my cron-monthly e-mail I got this message;
> >
> > /etc/cron.monthly/vrms:
> > vrms: ERROR- Badly formed dpkg-status entry #74!
> >             pkg=[sysutils], pkgstatus=[install ok installed], section=[] 
> > vrms: ERROR- Badly formed dpkg-status entry #1603!
> >             pkg=[xjig], pkgstatus=[install ok installed], section=[] 
> >     
>
> I have not seen this in a while (I'm currently maintaining vrms). One
> weird thing is that the section field of your packages are empty (they
> should not be, AFAIK).
>
>   
> > What can I do to fix this?
> >     
>
> Which distribution are you using? The newer distributions (testing,
> unstable) have newer versions of vrms which are slightly more robust
> (and have additional features).
>
>
> Hope this helps in any way, Rogério.
>
>   
Hi, Rogério!

I'm on Sarge with some backports.org and debian-multimedia stuff.  I'll 
probably be updating to Etch once it's gone stable.  I noticed the empty 
sections but I didn't know if they were significant.

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