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Bug#495331: marked as done (apt-get on SID fails in German locale: "E: Toll, Sie haben die Anzahl an Beschreibungen überschritten, die APT handhaben kann.")

Your message dated Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:27:37 +0200
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and subject line Close: IDs need to be int instead of short
has caused the Debian Bug report #354938,
regarding apt-get on SID fails in German locale: "E: Toll, Sie haben die Anzahl an Beschreibungen  überschritten, die APT handhaben kann."
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354938: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354938
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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.14+b1
Severity: important

*** Please type your report below this line ***

Hi!

I'm using the German locale de_DE@euro.

Since about yesterday, apt / aptitude fail for me with the following 
messages:

E: Toll, Sie haben die Anzahl an Beschreibungen überschritten, die APT 
handhaben kann.
E: Problem with MergeList
/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_binary-
i386_Packages
E: Die Paketliste oder die Statusdatei konnte nicht geparst oder geöffnet 
werden.

I'm not the only one who recently seems to be affected by this problem:
http://tinyurl.com/56vwcx

However, the suggested workaround - deleting the *Translation* files in 
/var/lib/apt/ - didn't
work for me.

Removing some Debian suits from sources.list - eg. only keeping unstable 
and deleting stable and
testing - seems to help.

Changing the locale to "C" also seems to help. (!)

Are there any "real" solutions to this problem, which renders apt-get / 
aptitude unusuable without
manual intervention. (I found the locale-dependency of this problem by 
pure trial-and-error...)

Greetings,

  Gunter

-- Package-specific info:

-- apt-config dump --

APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "1";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::Acquire "";
APT::Acquire::Translation "environment";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
APT::Cache-Limit "33554432";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
Dir::Log "var/log/apt";
Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Tools "";
DPkg::Tools::Options "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs::Version "2";
Unattended-Upgrade "";
Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins "";
Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins:: "Debian stable";

-- /etc/apt/preferences --

// Experimental
Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental,o=Debian,l=Debian
Pin-Priority: 200

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable,o=Debian,l=Debian
Pin-Priority: 950

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable,o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,l=Unofficial 
Multimedia Packages
Pin-Priority: 960


-- /etc/apt/sources.list --

deb     ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable          main contrib non-
free
deb     ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing         main contrib non-
free
deb     ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable        main contrib non-
free
deb     ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ experimental    main contrib non-
free

deb-src ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing         main contrib non-
free
deb-src ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable        main contrib non-
free

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring   2008.04.16+nmu1 GnuPG archive keys of the 
Debian a
ii  libc6                    2.7-13          GNU C Library: Shared 
libraries
ii  libgcc1                  1:4.3.1-8       GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6               4.3.1-8         The GNU Standard C++ Library 
v3

apt recommends no packages.

Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn  apt-doc                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  aptitude                      0.4.11.9-1 terminal-based package 
manager
ii  bzip2                         1.0.5-1    high-quality block-sorting 
file co
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.14.20    Debian package development 
tools
ii  lzma                          4.43-14    Compression method of 7z 
format in

-- no debconf information

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--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 0.7.21

The IDs are for a long time now ints instead of short and at
least on all sane architectures (all archs debian supports [0])
these 32bit ints should have enough room for the next years…

The bug was closed with the entry of 0.7.21 into the archive,
which was on the 14. April 2009 with the following changelog:

[Michael Vogt]
[...]
  * [ABI break] use int for the package IDs (thanks to Steve Cotton)
[...]

At this time the bug was still closed from the experimental upload
before - it was just reopened on 17. Dec 2009 without a reason
(or at least i can't find one).

I am therefore closing these buggroup now (again),
but feel free to reopen it if you disagree. :)


Best regards,

David Kalnischkies

[0] http://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo

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