On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 04:20:25PM -0500, Hunter Wittenborn wrote:
> When I try installing the packages my program builds (with 'apt install
> ./debname.deb'), it works fine. But if I then try to reinstall the package
> (with 'apt reinstall ./debname.deb'), this error keeps popping up for some
> reason (the variables surrounded by '{}' represent values in a control file):
>
> Repository is broken: {Package}:{Architecture} (= {Version}) has no Size
> information
>
> Is there anything I'm doing wrong when creating the .deb package […]Maybe as dpkg does a bit more than just tar and stuff while building packages, but no, this message is due to a bug of sorts in apt: https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/merge_requests/177 The changes are already merged to main and should be in experimental, which was also the only release pocket effected in Debian (well, technically the misconception as such is a few years old, but the code equally hiding and bringing it to light is not). Not sure about the state in Ubuntu, but I guess its only their development release und only until the next sync/upload. You can btw use -o Acquire::AllowUnsizedPackages=1 to disable this check. Or, simply don't try to reinstall packages for (probably) no reason… Best regards David Kalnischkies
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