Bug#496191: Package description misses a space at the begining of a line, causing "dpkg -l" to fail.

[Roberto C. Sánchez]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:57:52AM +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> tags + unreproducible
> thanks
> 
> On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 08:14 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, nathael wrote:
> > > -suse this package on a server that provides SASL authentication, then
> > > + suse this package on a server that provides SASL authentication, then
> > 
> > Rather, it should be
> > -suse this package on a server that provides SASL authentication, then
> > + use this package on a server that provides SASL authentication, then
> 
> Indeed, but how on earth did that change occur? It's not present in any
> SVN revision that I can find. The latest version of the control file is
> visible here:
> 
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-cyrus-sasl2/cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/control?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
> 
> The latest armel buildd log doesn't show that string either:
> 
> http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=cyrus-sasl2;ver=2.1.22.dfsg1-22%2Bb1;arch=armel;stamp=1219452953
> 
> Nathanael, are you sure everything is ok with your armel system? Could
> there be some corruption of the dpkg databases or some other local
> error? If you reinstall the package, does that change anything? Which
> mirror are you using -- could it be a local error on that mirror?
> 
This looks to me like a case of the dpkg database getting corrupted.
I've had it happen to me on various systems and it always manifests
itself in some different way.  I move that we close the bug report as
there is no evidence that it is anything else.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez
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