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

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Ralf Schlatterbeck <ralf@zoo.priv.at> writes:

> 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

Could you use tcpdump or ethereal or similar to log the actual network
traffic of apt-get? But please, only that of apt-get.

MfG
        Goswin