Package: apt Version: unavailable; reported 2003-05-24 Severity: grave Tags: sid Justification: renders package unusable When using dselect to update the packages list, the "available" file gets corrupted somehow. Removing the Packages files and available file to force them to be downloaded and regenerated from scratch does not help this. apt-get update doesn't generate an "available" file at all. Symptoms are that the "Architecture: " line in /var/lib/dpkg/available is getting garbled with random binary junk, and dpkg is aborting with all kinds of messages about the available file not matching up with the status file. dpkg says the status file shows invalid status for various packages, and other times it says that the Config-Version is invalid. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux giggle 2.5.67 #2 Wed Apr 9 18:12:09 PDT 2003 i586 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C --It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.
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