Bug#226630: apt-get hangs when sources.list lines exceed 299 columns

["Martin.Kraemer@Fujitsu-Siemens.com" <Martin.Kraemer@Fujitsu-Siemens.com>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: important


-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux deejai3 2.4.24 #11 SMP Wed Jan 7 12:48:46 CET 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=de_DE.ISO8859-15, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO8859-15

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

Problem description:
When some lines (typically, comments) in /etc/apt/sources.list have more
than 299 columns, then apt-get will go into an endless loop (on
"apt-get update" and "apt-get install" etc. alike), apparently
within a C++ class trying to read the sources.list lines. Reducing the
longest line to 299 columns helps immediately.