Bug#365819: apt-get update chokes on "Bad header line"

[Ralf Schlatterbeck <ralf@zoo.priv.at>]

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:52:37AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:20:39AM +0200, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
> 
> > apt-get update produces "Bad header line" messages on some files. Note that
> > this error is not reproduceable always (and happens for different files
> > although Release.gpg is often among them), sometimes the update runs
> > successfully,
> 
> This error certainly isn't reproducible in the general case.

I can now confirm that only apt-get in etch is affected. My apt-get in
sarge works perfectly. Anything I can do (e.g. build the apt package
with debugging turned on) to help you diagnose this problem?

Ralf
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