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Package: dctrl-tools
Version: 2.14
Severity: normal
Hi,
The same bug has been fixed in uscan (devscripts package). See #590178.
$ sudo sync-available
Merging available database in /tmp/apt-available.FzM1VG...done.
Replacing available packages info, using /tmp/apt-available.FzM1VG.
dpkg: parse error, in file '/tmp/apt-available.FzM1VG' near line 775788 package
'virtualbox':
error in Version string `1.6.6-35336_Debian_lenny': invalid character in
revision number
Christian
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (900, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.35 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages dctrl-tools depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
dctrl-tools recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dctrl-tools suggests:
ii apt 0.7.25.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg
pn debtags <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 09:12:27AM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
> Package: dctrl-tools
> Version: 2.14
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> The same bug has been fixed in uscan (devscripts package). See #590178.
>
> $ sudo sync-available
> Merging available database in /tmp/apt-available.FzM1VG...done.
> Replacing available packages info, using /tmp/apt-available.FzM1VG.
> dpkg: parse error, in file '/tmp/apt-available.FzM1VG' near line 775788
> package 'virtualbox':
> error in Version string `1.6.6-35336_Debian_lenny': invalid character in
> revision number
>
Not a bug, just an invalid file which is the result of using an
inoffical repository (virtualbox.org) which contains invalid
version numbers (and dpkg now rejects invalid version numbers).
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Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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