Re: Broken package descriptions from packages.debian.org
* Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> [2005-08-27 01:45] :
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 03:56:31PM +0200, Frédéric Bothamy wrote:
> > * Frédéric Bothamy <frederic.bothamy@free.fr> [2005-08-26 14:41] :
> > > I have noticed that recently the package descriptions are always set to
> > > "Error while loading descriptions database:" (f.e.
> > > http://packages.debian.org/ipmasq). I guess that there is some problem
> > > getting the Packages description file, but I don't know where this is
> > > done (maybe in
> > > http://cvs.debian.org/packages/contents/refetch?cvsroot=webwml ?).
> > > Individual pages (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/ipmasq) are
> > > not affected.
> >
> > It seemed to be a transient error. Now the package descriptions are
> > correct.
>
> For the curious here the explanation of that error:
> saens was updated to sarge and so the perl libdb bindings changed. After I
> regenerated all the db files the error was fixed.
Thanks for the information.
Fred
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