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

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:48:29AM +0200, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
> 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?

The output of:
# apt-get  -o Debug::Acquire::http=true update 2> apt_http.log

would be usefull here (please attach it to this bugreport).

Thanks,
 Michael

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