Bug#193881: apt-utils: apt-fileutils broken

[Christian Garbs <debian@cgarbs.de>]

Package: apt-utils
Version: 0.5.5
Severity: normal

Up to now, I've created my local apt repository with these commands:

$ apt-ftparchive packages ./ | gzip -9 > Packages.gz
$ apt-ftparchive sources  ./ | gzip -9 > Sources.gz

Currently, the creation of the Packages and Sources file fail:

$ apt-ftparchive packages ./ 

E: Unparsible control file
E: Errors apply to file './japana_2.0.5-1_all.deb'
E: Unparsible control file
E: Errors apply to file './jprojecttimer_0.0.7-2_all.deb'
E: Unparsible control file
E: Errors apply to file './kenny_1.7-3_all.deb'
E: Unparsible control file
E: Errors apply to file './makesig_0.0.9-2_all.deb'
E: Unparsible control file
E: Errors apply to file './tentakelcoder_1.2-1_all.deb'
E: Unparsible control file
E: Errors apply to file './wallpaper_0.1-1_all.deb'
E: Unparsible control file
E: Errors apply to file './whatsnewfm_0.6.2-1_all.deb'
E: Unparsible control file
E: Errors apply to file './wondershaper_1.1a-1_all.deb'
E: Unparsible control file
E: Errors apply to file './v2strip_0.2.10-1_i386.deb'
E: Unparsible control file
E: Errors apply to file './mplayer-dep-dev_0.4_all.deb'

$ apt-ftparchive sources ./ 

E: Could not find a record in the DSC './japana_2.0.5-1.dsc'
E: Could not find a record in the DSC './whatsnewfm_0.6.2-1.dsc'
E: Could not find a record in the DSC './kenny_1.7-3.dsc'
E: Could not find a record in the DSC './jprojecttimer_0.0.7-2.dsc'
E: Could not find a record in the DSC './makesig_0.0.9-2.dsc'
E: Could not find a record in the DSC './tentakelcoder_1.2-1.dsc'
E: Could not find a record in the DSC './wallpaper_0.1-1.dsc'
E: Could not find a record in the DSC './wondershaper_1.1a-1.dsc'
E: Could not find a record in the DSC './v2strip_0.2.10-1.dsc'
E: Could not find a record in the DSC './mplayer-dep-dev_0.4.dsc'


I've switched to dpkg-scan* and everything works fine, so I don't
think that it's an error with the debs:

$ dpkg-scanpackages ./ /dev/null | gzip -9 > Packages.gz
$ dpkg-scansources  ./           | gzip -9 > Sources.gz

Just in case: The .debs should be available here (supposed that
dpkg-scan* really worked):

deb     http://www.h.shuttle.de/mitch/stuff ./
deb-src http://www.h.shuttle.de/mitch/stuff ./


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux yggdrasil 2.4.20 #14 Sat May 17 14:07:47 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro

Versions of packages apt-utils depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3. 0.5.5       Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libc6                        2.3.1-16    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdb2                       2:2.7.7.0-8 The Berkeley database routines (ru
ii  libgcc1                      1:3.3-0pre9 GCC support library
ii  libstdc++5                   1:3.3-0pre9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

-- no debconf information


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