Public bug reported:
When performing package related operations I get a warning about an
invalid character in version number. For example:
$ dpkg -l compiz
dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 8322 package
'compiz':
error in 'Version' field string '1:0.9.12.2+6.04.20160823-0ubuntu1': invalid
character in version number
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-===================-==============-==============-============================================
ii compiz 1:0.9.12.2+ all OpenGL window and
compositing manager
$ sudo aptitude upgrade
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 8322 package
'compiz':
error in 'Version' field string '1:0.9.12.2+6.04.20160823-0ubuntu1': invalid
character in version number
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 8322 package
'compiz':
error in 'Version' field string '1:0.9.12.2+6.04.20160823-0ubuntu1': invalid
character in version number
I am running 16.04:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
Release: 16.04
Please let me know if you need any more information.
** Affects: compiz (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
dpkg reports invalid character in version number on package 'compiz'
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