Bug#46310: marked as done (apt robustness issue)
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From: Chris Ricker <chris.ricker@genetics.utah.edu>
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Subject: dpkg robustness issue
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.1.11
Recently, a couple of packages in which the "Priority: Optional" field had
been miss-spelled "Priority: Optionnal" were added to potato. This caused
apt and dselect all sorts of confusion. Running your choice of either
apt-get update or dselect and then choosing update resulted in errors like:
Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Malformed Priority line
E: Error occured while processing aleph-doc (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList
/var/state/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
for all the packages with the miss-spelling.
The short-term solution, obviously, is to fix the miss-spelling, and that's
been done, but, long-term, it might be worth making the whole system more
tolerant of miss-spellings, especially given the number of Debian
developers and the myriad of mother tongues of those developers....
later,
chris
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 17:52:43 +0200
From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl>
To: Chris Ricker <chris.ricker@genetics.utah.edu>, 46310-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#46310: dpkg robustness issue
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Previously Chris Ricker wrote:
> Recently, a couple of packages in which the "Priority: Optional" field h=
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> been miss-spelled "Priority: Optionnal" were added to potato. This caus=
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> apt and dselect all sorts of confusion.
It caused apt problems, so it's not a dpkg bug.
Wichert.
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