Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.8 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
since the squeeze->wheezy upgrade, dpkg complains
| dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 22326 package
'am-utils':
| 'Replaces' field, reference to 'amd': error in version: version number does
not start with digit
| dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 22329 package
'am-utils':
| 'Conflicts' field, reference to 'amd': error in version: version number does
not start with digit
| dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 53160 package
'root-tail':
| 'Conflicts' field, reference to 'rt': error in version: version number does
not start with digit
| dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 66098 package
'wmnetselect':
| 'Suggests' field, reference to 'mozilla': error in version: version number
does not start with digit
| dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 69692 package
'e3':
| error in Version string 'e3-2.30-1': version number does not start with digit
| dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 76303 package
'tac-plus':
| error in Version string 'F4.0.4.alpha-9.1': version number does not start
with digit
| dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 125623
package 'epic4-script-thirdeye':
| 'Depends' field, reference to 'epic4': error in version: version number does
not start with digit
| dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 148287
package 'cnews':
| error in Version string 'cr.g7-31': version number does not start with digit
| dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 188240
package 'request-tracker1':
| 'Conflicts' field, reference to 'rt': error in version: version number does
not start with digit
| dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 200258
package 'epic4':
| 'Conflicts' field, reference to 'epic4-help': error in version: version
number does not start with digit
This is a really old system, installation was done almost ten years
ago using woody. And at that time, the rules about version numbers
were more relaxed than today. The first stanza mentioned is:
| Package: am-utils
| Priority: extra
| Section: net
| Installed-Size: 472
| Maintainer: Philippe Troin <p...@fifi.org>
| Architecture: i386
| Version: 6.0.7-6
! Replaces: amd (<= upl102-35)
| Depends: portmap, libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libgdbmg1, perl, debconf (>= 0.5.0)
| Suggests: nis, am-utils-dev, am-utils-doc
| Conflicts: amd (<= upl102-35)
| Filename: pool/main/a/am-utils/am-utils_6.0.7-6_i386.deb
| Size: 257132
| MD5sum: f7c086afbb93453b7f6058b47d232568
| Description: The 4.4BSD automounter.
| Amd is an automounter--it mounts file systems "on demand" when they
| are first referenced and unmounts them after a period of inactivity.
None of these packages is still installed, so I purged
/var/lib/dpkg/available manually. Howevery, please consider doing this
in a sensitive way during the upgrade, to avoid confusion for the
users.
Regards,
Christoph
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.4.11 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-4
ii libc6 2.13-35
ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-1
ii libselinux1 2.1.9-5
ii tar 1.26-4
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13
dpkg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii apt 0.9.7.4
-- no debconf information
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