Bug#276060: apt: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1)

[Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Andre Majorel wrote:

> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.27
> Severity: normal
>
> Installing a certain package causes apt-get and apt-cache to
> become essentially non-functional.
>
>   # apt-cache search x
>   E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1)
>   # apt-get remove foobar
>   Reading Package Lists... Error!
>   E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1)
>   E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
>
> Here is the /var/lib/dpkg/status entry for the package that
> triggers the bug (names mangled as they are irrelevant).

apt only supports paragraph sizes < 32k(or some such number, I forget what it
is).