Package: apache2-common Version: 2.0.50-5 Followup-For: Bug #258713 It looks like grep -v "^ " did not do the trick. Apparently, the wrapped lines from the TERMCAP env variable must start with a tabulation and thus are not filtered out.
Using grep -v "^[[:space:]]" instead seems to work. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-k7 Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 Versions of packages apache2-common depends on: ii debconf 1.4.29 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libapr0 2.0.50-5 The Apache Portable Runtime ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdb4.2 4.2.52-16 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [ ii libexpat1 1.95.6-8 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libldap2 2.1.30-2 OpenLDAP libraries ii libmagic1 4.09-1 File type determination library us ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7d-3.1 SSL shared libraries ii mime-support 3.26-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap ii net-tools 1.60-10 The NET-3 networking toolkit ii openssl 0.9.7d-3.1 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a ii ssl-cert 1.0-8 Simple debconf wrapper for openssl ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-5 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information