I was able to get around this bug by trying different source servers -
this leads me to think that the bug is actually a problem with some of
the inidividual servers (in my case the NZ one) and not necessarily with
the update manager itself. It would have been nice to have it try other
sources by
Public bug reported:
Big red warning sign, with the following message:
An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.
Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include
the following error message:
'E:Problem parsing dependency Suggests,
Sorry, didn't add extra information.
Release of Ubuntu: 11.10
apt-cache policy pkgname gives:
E: Problem parsing dependency Suggests
E: Error occurred while processing libreoffice-l10n-pa-in (NewVersion2)
E: Problem with MergeList