Bug#712481: apt: installing package with terminal gives errors...

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

Control: reassign -1 dpkg
Control: severity -1 normal

Hello Andre,

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Andre Verwijs <verwijs.pc@gmail.com> wrote:
>Severity: serious
>Tags: upstream
>Justification: required

Yes, indeed, a justification is required … (sry, couldn't resist)


> root@Debian-Jessie:/home/verwijs# apt-get install python-vte
[…]
> dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 294 package
> 'libtext-wrapi18n-perl':
>  ontbrekende description
> dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 414 package
> 'libustr-1.0-1:amd64':
>  ontbrekende description
[and many more of these lines]

APT isn't touching this file (yeah okay, it kind of does if you happen to use
dselect with APT, but you don't seem to do that) so reassigning to dpkg as
it is their file and they will know best what might be wrong on your system
and how to fix it (I presume it isn't a bug in the end, but they will know)

Downgraded the severity though as a warning itself isn't destroying anything
and your transcript shows that indeed the dpkg/APT run was successful.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies