severity 174945 serious merge 236688 174945 thanks On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 07:04:33PM +0000, James Troup wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.5.23 > Severity: serious > > | vore:/# apt-get source ed > | Reading Package Lists... Done > | Building Dependency Tree... Done > | Need to get 195kB of source archives. > | E: Unable to parse package file > /var/lib/apt/lists/incoming.debian.org_buildd_Sources (1) > | E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object > | E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object > | E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object > | vore:/# > > This seems to be because linux-kernel-di[1] now has a Binaries: field > which is > 10k characters long.
The problem seems to be that the stanza is larger than 32k, the mishandling of which is a known bug which didn't break anything important until now. I guess I'll probably just bump the limit as a quick fix, to 128k or something. -- - mdz
