Your message dated Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:35:15 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#646585: Package "acerhkgui" has got no dots in blank
lines in "Description" field, causing errors in dpkg
has caused the Debian Bug report #646585,
regarding Package "acerhkgui" has got no dots in blank lines in "Description"
field, causing errors in dpkg
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Package: acerhkgui
Version: latest (squeeze, 2011-10-25)
Hi,
When I tried "apt-get dist-upgrade" today, dpkg was reporting some errors like
"blank line in value of field 'Description' in var/lib/dpkg/status package
`acerhkgui`"I'm not sure if the message was exactly written as I wrote it,
because I couldn't finish the upgrade process (and thus couldn't install
"reportbug" to submit the bug regularly), so I'm sorry about that.
However, I solved the bug by editting 2 files /var/lib/dpkg/status and
/var/lib/dpkg/available, first finding the package "acerhkgui", then correcting
its "Description" field which was like:
aaaaaaaaa
bbbbbbbbb
cccccccccc
dddddddd
eeeeeeee
and should be like this:
aaaaaaaaa
bbbbbbbbb
.
cccccccccc
dddddddd
.
eeeeeeee
Anyway, it was an easy fix, but I thought it would be nice to report that
little bug :)
Cheers :)
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"Mladen B." <[email protected]> writes:
> From: "Gergely Nagy" <[email protected]>
>
>
>> Can't see it in testing, either. Do you have any other sources in
>> sources.list? Or perhaps, you downloaded the .deb from somewhere? (such
>> as sourceforge)
>
> I've done dpkg -l | grep acer, and found acerhk-source and
> acerhkgui. Those must be the drivers that I was trying to get working,
> for my wireless card on my laptop. I'm guessing I've misplaced this
> bug report :)
It seems so, yeah. No worries, though, I'm closing the bug on the Debian
side for now (the URL will still remain valid, though).
> I'm sorry for this, I've copied the URL of this report to the
> developers of AcerHK and I hope they will investigate that thing
> further.
It's the AcerHK GUI developers (acerhkgui.sf.net or similar, as I
recall) that should be notified that their debs are incorrect.
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