[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Broken package

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Marcus,

please note that this is not a user-support list!

Marcus wrote:
> Hi. I can't do any update on my system (Ubuntu 8.04) because there is a broken package ("policykit-gnome"). I do try to remove this using all the available commands. But the system always returns an error message:

This is on a Ubuntu system, so you should best ask there.

> 
> dpkg-query: erro de interpretação, no ficheiro `/var/lib/dpkg/status' perto da linha 27306 pacote `policykit-gnome':
> 
> Then I'd opened the "status" file and I'd found the lines associated to the package:
> 
> Package: policykit-gnome
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: optional
> Section: gnome
> Installed-Size: 212
> Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Architecture: i386*Version: 0.7-2ubuntu1.1

This line looks broken.
It should be something like

Architecture: i386
Version: 0.7-2ubuntu1.1

Be very careful though, when you hand edit /var/lib/dpkg/status.

No idea how /var/lib/dpkg/status it got broken that way.

Michael

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