Bug#366931: Apt fails of 0 byte files

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:59:42AM -0700, C.Y.M wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.44
> Severity: important

Thanks for your bugreport. 
 
> When I type "apt-get source", apt fails on the following:
> 
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> E: Unable to parse package file
> /var/lib/apt/lists/sentinel.dk_debian_dists_unstable_contrib_source_Sources (2)
> E: Unable to parse package file
> /var/lib/apt/lists/sentinel.dk_debian_dists_unstable_non-free_source_Sources (2)
> 
> 
> If i go back to the previous version of apt, then it works fine.  With the
> current version of apt, I am unable to get any source using "apt-get source".
> The twi files above that apt-get fails on are 0 byte files.
[..]

Do I understand this correctly, the previous version worked with zero
size files? The new one does not? (it is not the new version that
incorrectly creates those zero byte files)?

Thanks,
 Michael

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