Bug#236688: apt: breaks on super-large (Binary:) fields

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Subject: Bug#236688: apt: breaks on super-large (Binary:) fields
From: James Troup <james@nocrew.org>
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 19:04:33 +0000
Message-id: <[🔎] 87llmc8on2.fsf@shiri.gloaming.local>
Reply-to: James Troup <james@nocrew.org>, 236688@bugs.debian.org

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.23
Severity: serious

| vore:/# apt-get source ed
| Reading Package Lists... Done
| Building Dependency Tree... Done
| Need to get 195kB of source archives.
| E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/apt/lists/incoming.debian.org_buildd_Sources (1)
| E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
| E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
| E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
| vore:/# 

This seems to be because linux-kernel-di[1] now has a Binaries: field
which is > 10k characters long.

-- 
James

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2004/debian-devel-changes-200403/msg00627.html

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- Bug#236688: apt: breaks on super-large (Binary:) fields
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- Bug#236688: marked as done ([deb] breaks on Binary: field larger than 10000 bytes)
  - From: owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System)

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