[Piuparts-devel] The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened?

[wferi at niif.hu]

"Nicolas Dandrimont" <nicolas at dandrimont.eu> writes:

> This was indeed a bug in piuparts (or in apt), rather than in your
> package: apt 2.0.0 is failing to install the dummy .debs generated by
> piuparts to install dependencies, because it cannot parse the Depends
> line generated. Switching Depends and Description around makes the
> generated package installable.

Hi Nicolas,

Amazing work discovering this far-from-obvious workaround! :)

> I've committed a workaround to piuparts and I've rescheduled tests for
> the few hundred affected packages.

Thanks, the results look much better already.

> I'll follow up with a bug report (with a reproducer) against apt later.

Great, and thank you for the quick and very positive response!
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Regards,
Feri