Package: apt-file Severity: important Tags: patch The diffindex-download script does not gracefully handle the addition of the new fields used by APT. This causes apt-file to disable the PDiff support and revert to downloading the full Contents file.
This can be fixed by applying the following patch to diffindex-download.
> diff --git a/diffindex-download b/diffindex-download
> index 588ca14..eb0339c 100755
> --- a/diffindex-download
> +++ b/diffindex-download
> @@ -288,6 +288,12 @@ sub parse_index {
> }
> $previous = undef;
> }
> + elsif ( $line =~ m{^[^ :]+:}) {
> + $section = 'ignore';
> + }
> + elsif ($section eq 'ignore') {
> + next;
> + }
> elsif ( $line =~ m{^\s+($re_sum)\s+(\d+)\s+(\S+)\s*$} ) {
> my ( $sum, $size, $name ) = ( lc($1), $2, $3 );
> if ( !defined $section ) {
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