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

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

severity 174945 serious
merge 236688 174945
thanks

On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 07:04:33PM +0000, James Troup wrote:
> 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.

The problem seems to be that the stanza is larger than 32k, the mishandling
of which is a known bug which didn't break anything important until now.  I
guess I'll probably just bump the limit as a quick fix, to 128k or
something.

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 - mdz