On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 08:30:42AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > If I put Dell's current debian package for perccli into my local > reprepro, then "apt update" complains
Oh boy, that is some heavy package… and that not only because it claims to be 7GB large… I think the producer of that package meant 7 MB, but didn't realize that Installed-Size is in KiB, not Bytes. Anyway, this control file is not produced by dpkg-gencontrol; that wouldn't include bogus empty lines, too. Maybe you can get them to fix their package and in that process also clean it up… if they insist on producing it by hand. > E: Problem parsing Provides line of perccli:all=007.2616.0000.0000 > E: Error occurred while processing perccli (NewVersion2) > E: Problem with MergeList > /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.ac.aixigo.de_debian_dists_bookworm-experimental_main_binary-amd64_Packages > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. Seems like this was simple enough to "fix" in libapt code… https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/commit/c98bcdf00e5366fec101dd17094d36be21872a02 I would still advice to fix the package as this is somewhat unlikely to reach users 'soon' (with trixie of course, but I doubt that gets backports into oblivion). Best regards David Kalnischkies
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