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,
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