Package: apt
Version: 0.6.46.4-0.1
Severity: normal
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There are records in Packages file, that cause "Error
decoding multibyte string" message in some cases.
Two examples:
$ LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 aptitude show cadubi
Package: cadubi
State: not installed
Version: 1.2-5
Priority: optional
Section: graphics
Maintainer: Te?filo Ruiz Su?rez <
teo@debian.org>Error \
decoding multibyte string
Uncompressed Size: 131k
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$ LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 aptitude show libglade-perl
Package: libglade-perl
State: not installed
Version: 0.61-1
Priority: optional
Section: perl
Maintainer: R?mi Perrot <
rperrot@debian.org>Error decoding \
multibyte string
Uncompressed Size: 147k
<...skipped...>
If I do
$ grep -A 5 '^Package: cadubi' /var/lib/apt/lists/\
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages
I see some <?> chars in terminal in the field 'Maintainer'.
Synaptic shows for this packet in Properties->Maintainer: "N/A".
I noticed this problem when played parsing the Packages file by
sed, and got completely messed and broken output from some place
in the middle of list and far.
-- Package-specific info:
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.test.001
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2007.07.31~etch1 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information