Hello,

On Tue, 05 Apr 2011, Sven-Haegar Koch wrote:
> aurora:~# dpkg -l
> dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 301 
> package 'libmimelib1':
>  missing architecture
[...]
> These seem all to only affect packages long removed, but not purged.

Can you show us the entry in the status file for one of those packages?

Packages which are in status "config-files" (i.e. removed but not purged)
should have all their status information including the Architecture field.

> dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 33441 package 
> 'am-utils':
>  'Replaces' field, reference to 'amd': error in version: version number does 
> not start with digit

Clean up the cruft in the available file by running "dpkg --clear-avail"
and you'll get rid of those.

Cheers,
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