As a followup to my last email, I believe the problem is in the way the version number of the package blt-dev is written in the depends of many other packages. In /var/cache/apt/available, the Depends: lines that contain blt-dev always list the version number as "2.4[ij]-1 ". dpkg is barfing on the trailing space. I traced the problem to a while loop in parsehelp.c in the parseversion() method of the dpkg source. the loop quits on the first space, and then checks the pointer to see if it is valid. if it is, it assumes that it is a character in which case the space it quit on is an embedded space. however, in this case, it is not an embedded space, rather a trailing space. i don't know whether this is a bug in dpkg or whether version numbers are supposed to not have trailing spaces. regardless, bugs.debian.org is down. Any suggestions?
Thanks, Anthony
