Bug#366788: apt: Refuses to accept older pre-existing package repositories that worked perfectly under immediate previous versions.

[Barrie Millar <solar@frondeg.co.uk>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.6.44
Severity: important


Hi 

After upgrading to the newest version of Apt shown above, running "apt-get
update" results in the following error. 

Reading package lists... Error!
E: Unable to parse package file
/var/lib/apt/lists/_home_deb-i386_archive_official1_binary_Release (1)
E: Problem opening
/var/lib/apt/lists/_home_deb-i386_archive_official2_binary_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

Downgrading to the immediate previous version of Apt available (0.6.43.3)
resolves this problem. Therefore, it must be a bug with the new version of
Apt. At present, I can't see any other reason why Apt would stop on these two archives.

Thanks

Regards,

Barrie

-- Package-specific info:

-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --


-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.6-7      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                     1:4.1.0-1+b1 GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                  4.1.0-1+b1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

Versions of packages apt recommends:
ii  debian-archive-keyring        2006.01.18 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a

-- no debconf information