The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit a9fd8b288a15f4ab03997c3f15ab6033c0bb0c82
Author: Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org>
Date: Sat Feb 18 20:19:38 2012 +0100
dpkg: Relax --merge-avail Packages file parser to not fail on bogus versions
This makes the behaviour consistent with the other Packages file
action (i.e. --update-avail).
Missed in commit 357ab385750c1cb657ff95c0b34ad0a6bf6d2cdf.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 59fff5b..e287c0b 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ dpkg (1.16.2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
options. Closes: #367608
* Improve and clarify dpkg-shlibdeps superfluous linking warning messages.
Based on a patch by Peter Eisentraut <pet...@debian.org>. Closes: #656496
+ * Relax --merge-avail Packages file parser, to not fail on bogus versions.
[ Raphaël Hertzog ]
* Update Dpkg::Shlibs to look into multiarch paths when cross-building
diff --git a/src/update.c b/src/update.c
index 11d0623..4ef3ff4 100644
--- a/src/update.c
+++ b/src/update.c
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ updateavailable(const char *const *argv)
if (cipaction->arg_int != act_avclear)
count += parsedb(sourcefile,
- pdb_recordavailable | pdb_rejectstatus | pdb_ignoreolder,
- NULL);
+ pdb_recordavailable | pdb_rejectstatus | pdb_lax_parser |
+ pdb_ignoreolder, NULL);
if (!f_noact) {
writedb(availfile, wdb_dump_available);
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