Bug#157789: apt: Comment character unspecified in apt_preferences(5)

[Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@terc.edu>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: minor

The comment character is unspecified in apt_preferences(5), probably
due to some format error or another. To quote:

   The file consists of a number of records formed like the dpkg
   status file, space seperated sections of text with at the start of
   each line tags seperated by a colon. It is stored in
   /etc/apt/preferences.

It seems that "with at" wants to have some character or another in the
middle.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux cray 2.2.20 #1 Sat Apr 20 11:45:28 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.2.5-11.1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2        1:2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library