Hi,
I think perhaps the information lies in handling UTF-8:
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#_> sed -n 's/^\([^ ]*\):.*/\1/p' /var/lib/dpkg/stat-old | sort -u
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Maintainer� Peyrot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Maintainer�i Perrot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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The offending lines seem to be:
Maintainer: Quôc Peyrot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Maintainer: Rémi Perrot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Unfortunately, editing these lines away has not really helped.
I think this change needs to be fixed or reverted; or, at
least, have a better error message which perhaps could include line
numbers -- I can imagine less experienced user may be completely
flummoxed by the apparent breakage.
#_> apt-get install apt
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
apt
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1414kB of archives.
After unpacking 32.8kB of additional disk space will be used.
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 333423 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace apt 0.6.45 (using .../archives/apt_0.6.46_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement apt ...
Setting up apt (0.6.46) ...
#_> apt-cahe search apt
zsh: correct apt-cahe to apt-cache ? ([Y]es/[N]o/[E]dit/[A]bort) y
E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1)
[1] 2973 exit 100 apt-cache search apt
#_> sed -n 's/^\([^ ]*\):.*/\1/p' /var/lib/dpkg/status | sort -u
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#_>
manoj
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