Bug#190355: apt-get install dia dia-gnome corrupts status file
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: important
bash-2.05a# apt-get install dia dia-gnome
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
dia-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dia dia-common dia-gnome
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1256kB of archives. After unpacking 5178kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Selecting previously deselected package dia-common.
(Reading database ... 76424 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking dia-common (from .../dia-common_0.88.1-3_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package dia.
Unpacking dia (from .../archives/dia_0.88.1-3_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package dia-gnome.
Unpacking dia-gnome (from .../dia-gnome_0.88.1-3_i386.deb) ...
Setting up dia-common (0.88.1-3) ...
Setting up dia (0.88.1-3) ...
Setting up dia-gnome (0.88.1-3) ...
bash-2.05a# apt-get install anything
Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1)
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
diff -dU3 /var/backups/dpkg.status.0 /var/lib/dpkg/status
--- /var/backups/dpkg.status.0 Tue Apr 22 09:07:50 2003
+++ /var/lib/dpkg/status Wed Apr 23 12:04:39 2003
@@ -13713,9 +13713,21 @@
Section: mail
Package: dia-gnome
-Status: purge ok not-installed
+Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: graphics
+Installed-Size: 650
+Maintainer: Fredrik Hallenberg <hallon@debian.org>
+Source: dia
+Version: 0.88.1-3
+Depends: gdk-imlib1, libart2 (>= 1.2.13-5), libaudiofile0 (>= 0.2.3-4), libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libdb3 (>= 3.2.9-1), libesd0 (>= 0.2.23-1) | libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.23-1), libgdk-pixbuf2 (>= 0.16.0-1), libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), libgnome32 (>= 1.2.13-5), libgnomesupport0 (>= 1.2.13-5), libgnomeui32 (>= 1.2.13-5), libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.10-4), libpng2 (>= 1.0.12), libpopt0 (>= 1.6.2-1), libxml1 (>= 1:1.8.14-3), xlibs (>> 4.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), dia-common (= 0.88.1-3)
+Recommends: gsfonts-x11
+Description: Diagram editor (GNOME version)
+ Dia is an editor for diagrams, graphs, charts etc. There is support for UML
+ static structure diagrams (class diagrams), Entity-Relationship diagrams,
+ network diagrams and much more. Diagrams can be exported to postscript.
+ .
+ This package contains the GNOME version of Dia.
Package: jtex-bin
Status: purge ok not-installed
@@ -22728,9 +22740,18 @@
Section: doc
Package: dia
-Status: purge ok not-installed
+Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: graphics
+Installed-Size: 486
+Maintainer: Fredrik Hallenberg <hallon@debian.org>
+Version: 0.88.1-3
+Depends: libart2 (>= 1.2.13-5), libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libgdk-pixbuf2 (>= 0.16.0-1), libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.10-4), libpng2 (>= 1.0.12), libpopt0 (>= 1.6.2-1), libxml1 (>= 1:1.8.14-3), xlibs (>> 4.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), dia-common (= 0.88.1-3)
+Recommends: gsfonts-x11
+Description: Diagram editor
+ Dia is an editor for diagrams, graphs, charts etc. There is support for UML
+ static structure diagrams (class diagrams), Entity-Relationship diagrams,
+ network diagrams and much more. Diagrams can be exported to postscript.
Package: dotfile-tcsh
Status: purge ok not-installed
@@ -37803,6 +37824,23 @@
Contains the symlinks, headers, and object files needed to compile
and link programs which use the standard C library.
+Package: dia-common
+Status: install ok installed
+Priority: optional
+Section: graphics
+Installed-Size: 3921
+Maintainer: Fredrik Hallenberg <hallon@debian.org>
+Source: dia
+Version: 0.88.1-3
+Replaces: dia (<= 0.86-1)
+Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4)
+Recommends: dia | dia-gnome
+Conflicts: dia (<= 0.86-1)
+Description: Diagram editor (common files)
+ Dia is an editor for diagrams, graphs, charts etc. There is support for UML
+ static structure diagrams (class diagrams), Entity-Relationship diagrams,
+ network diagrams and much more. Diagrams can be exported to postscript.
+
Package: libnet-ldap-perl
Status: purge ok not-installed
Priority: optional
@@ -37862,11 +37900,6 @@
Status: purge ok not-installed
Priority: optional
Section: text
-
-Package: dia-common
-Status: purge ok not-installed
-Priority: optional
-Section: graphics
Package: libgconf-dev
Status: purge ok not-installed
When I get the bug number, I'll attach the old and new status file.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux whosthere 2.4.18-whosthere #1 Fri Mar 21 12:11:28 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-11.5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-11woody1 The GNU stdc++ library
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