Bug#622250: apt-get update fails mysteriously

[Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>]

Source: apt
Source-Version: 0.8.14

On Mo, 2011-04-11 at 11:36 +0200, Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.8.13.2
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> I get this:
> $ LANG=C sudo apt-get update
> Hit http://nas unstable InRelease
> Hit http://nas wheezy InRelease                           
> Hit http://ftp.fr.debian.org experimental InRelease                                         
> Hit http://nas wheezy/updates InRelease                                        
> Ign http://nas squeeze InRelease                             
> Hit http://nas unstable/main Sources
> Hit http://nas unstable/contrib Sources
> Hit http://nas unstable/non-free Sources
> Hit http://nas squeeze Release.gpg
> Hit http://nas squeeze Release
> W: Failed to fetch http://nas/debian/dists/unstable/InRelease  Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
> 
> W: Failed to fetch http://nas/debian/dists/wheezy/InRelease  Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
> 
> W: Failed to fetch http://nas:9999/security/dists/wheezy/updates/InRelease  Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
> 
> W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/experimental/InRelease  Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
> 
> W: Failed to fetch http://nas/debian/dists/squeeze/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
> 
> E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
> 
> 
> If I downgrade back to 0.8.13.1 it works fine. It looks like it misses the
> architecture information...

This problem was related to a new feature in dpkg which APT used
slightly incorrectly. It's fixed in 0.8.14.


-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.