Dear deity people, I have been staring at this problem for three days now and remain puzzled. I have two APT archives with the following sources.list entries: deb http://debian.madduck.net ~madduck/packages/sponsor/ deb-src http://debian.madduck.net ~madduck/packages/sponsor/ deb http://debian.madduck.net ~madduck/packages/nmu/ deb-src http://debian.madduck.net ~madduck/packages/nmu/ Sometime last week, out of the blue, these two started to wreak havoc with APT on several of my machines. I am using APT 0.5.28.1: Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.madduck.net_%7emadduck_packages_sponsor_Release (1) E: Problem opening /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.madduck.net_%7emadduck_packages_nmu_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. The first thing that's weird is that it tries to parse a Release file as a package file. Then, it cannot open the second file even though it's there and seems perfectly valid. Since the problem is on more than one machine, I am beginning to think it's my archive software (which sucks), but I did not make any changes there, and it used to work just fine. I'd really appreciate a whack over the head with the cluebat. Thanks, -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, user, and author `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! "'this must be a thursday,' said arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'i never could get the hang of thursdays.'" -- hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
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