On Tue, 1 May 2001, Mariusz Przygodzki wrote: > On Tuesday 01 May 2001 12:34, Adam Heath wrote: > > On Tue, 1 May 2001, Jon Eisenstein wrote: > > > I seem to be in a very troublesome spot... My dpkg segfaults in any > > > needed situation: > > > > What version? > > The current - 1.9.2, and previous 1.9.0. > The problem is that dpkg can not parse some infos about packages in > /var/lib/dpkg/available properly. I hade to remove them manually and now it's > O.K (no segfaults). At least till next upgrade.
This is because 1.9.0 had a bad parser, and would corrupt user-defined(read, meta-package, and X-Medium) fields.
