Bug#102423: marked as done (no errors on invalid syntax in /etc/apt/preferences)
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Subject: no errors on invalid syntax in /etc/apt/preferences
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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.3
Severity: normal
If there is a syntax or other error in the preferences file apt
silently ignores it, which makes it extremely hard to debug
problems.
Wichert.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux thunder 2.4.2-ac23-lvm091b6 #2 Fri Mar 23 23:35:00 CET 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-1
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.3-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.010604 The GNU stdc++ library
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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: Bug#102423: no errors on invalid syntax in /etc/apt/preferences
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On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> If there is a syntax or other error in the preferences file apt
> silently ignores it, which makes it extremely hard to debug
> problems.
All syntax errors are detected. Problems related to misnamed fields,
non-existant packages, non-existing version spects, etc are ignored as you
would expect.
Jason
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