Package: libapt-pkg5.0 Version: 1.2.9 Severity: important Tags: l10n
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
apt-get, aptitude, apt-cache, etc all report the following error E:Invalid record in the preferences file /etc/apt/preferences.d/my.pref, no Package header
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
Create a file in /etc/apt/preferences.d/ using an ansible template that is UTF-8 encoded.
* What was the outcome of this action?
None of the APT front-end utilities respect the preferences (pinning) set in the new preferences file.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Ideally, The preferences in the new preferences file should be respected and apt should be capable of dealing with files of any file encoding or the error message returned to the front-end utilities should indicate a problem with the file or its encoding.
— System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages libapt-pkg5.0 depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-8 ii libc6 2.21-6 ii libgcc1 1:5.3.1-12 ii liblz4-1 0.0~r131-1 ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1 ii libstdc++6 5.3.1-12 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
Versions of packages libapt-pkg5.0 recommends: ii apt 1.2
libapt-pkg5.0 suggests no packages.
— no debconf information