Bug#960533: apt: parser error : xmlParseEntityRef

[Lyndon Brown <jnqnfe@gmail.com>]

Multiple users including myself are experiencing this. I also do not
know the source of the problem. I first noticed it yesterday, also
using apt 2.1.1. There are others discussing it on the debian-users
mailing list ([1]), with some insight into the source of the strings
the errors refer to at least.

[1]: 
https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg756341.html



On Wed, 13 May 2020 18:35:00 +0200 Nicolas Patrois <
nicolas.patrois@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 2.1.1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I don’t know if it is an apt bug or not.
> Just after having read the sources, apt complains about malformed XML
files:
> 
> Entity: line 4: parser error : xmlParseEntityRef: no name
> e original message barList of languages in a config file instead iso-
codesFind
> &
> ^
> Entity: line 8: parser error : EntityRef: expecting ';'
>     - get haircut @s 24 @r d &i 14 @o r</li>
>                                ^
> Entity: line 11: parser error : EntityRef: expecting ';'
> @r y &i 4 &M 11 &m 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 &w TU</li>
>        ^
> Entity: line 11: parser error : EntityRef: expecting ';'
> @r y &i 4 &M 11 &m 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 &w TU</li>
>             ^
> Entity: line 11: parser error : EntityRef: expecting ';'
> @r y &i 4 &M 11 &m 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 &w TU</li>
>                   ^
> Entity: line 11: parser error : EntityRef: expecting ';'
> @r y &i 4 &M 11 &m 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 &w TU</li>
>                                          ^