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Bug#193308: apt: reports "E: Problem with MergeList ..." when a Packages-file is empty



Package: apt
Version: 0.5.5
Severity: normal


Hi,

I just installed apt-build, it creates a local repository on my machine
and adds it to the sources.list.

After running apt get update it reports:
Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/_var_cache_apt-build_repository_dists_apt-build_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
zsh: 21219 exit 100   apt-get update

I think this is a bug because it should not fail but just ignore empty Packages files.


But thanks a lot for you work, anyway!


- Alexander


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux sigint 2.4.20-wolk4.0s #2 Wed Apr 30 21:55:48 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (ignored: LC_ALL set)

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.1-17    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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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