Bug#364307: gnome-desktop-data: Failed to upgrade package using apt-get or dpkg

[Alexandre Norman]

Package: gnome-desktop-data
Version: 2.14.0-1
Severity: normal


After an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade which failed on this package,
I am now unable to install a new package :

noodle:/home/norman# apt-get install libmysql-java
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Suggested packages:
  liblog4j1.2-java
  The following NEW packages will be installed
    libmysql-java
    0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 222 not upgraded.
    Need to get 0B/496kB of archives.
    After unpacking 565kB of additional disk space will be used.
    (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libmysql-java_3.1.11-1_all.deb (--unpack):
    files list file for package `gnome-desktop-data' contains empty filename
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     /var/cache/apt/archives/libmysql-java_3.1.11-1_all.deb
     Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
      

and also :

noodle:/home/norman# dpkg -L gnome-desktop-data
dpkg-query: files list file for package `gnome-desktop-data' contains empty filename


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (650, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

-- no debconf information