Bug#154257: apt: /var/lib/dpkg/avaible generated with errors

["aurelien naldi" <aurelien@resus.univ-mrs.fr>]

Package: apt
Version: N/A; reported 2002-07-25
Severity: grave
Tags: sid
Justification: renders package unusable

extract of /var/lib/dpkg/avaible just after I ran an apt-get update :

Package: xfonts-base-transcoded
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 1848
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
Architecture: l`
^H\`
^H^D
Source: xfree86
[..]
Package: gnome-panel2
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 700
Maintainer: Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>
Architecture: l`
^H\`
^H^D
Version: 2.0.1-1
[..]
Package: lame
Priority: optional
Section: sound
Installed-Size: 608
Maintainer: Stefan Karrmann <S.Karrmann@gmx.net>
Architecture: l`
^H\`
^H^D
Version: 3.92-1

and many many others
this happens several times and those strange things can be inserted at
different places, and take different forms
it seems to concern mainly packages from experimental or locally
installed

sometimes it works..

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux nemo 2.4.18 #3 mar mai 21 12:51:54 CEST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR

-- no debconf information



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