Hi, Dose upstream here.
On 19/01/16 23:28, Christoph Berg wrote: > Ubuntu wily and trusty's "universe" Packages files have a weird python > header for python-tempest: > > Package: python-tempest > [...] > Description: Openstack integration test suite > Python_version: 2.7 > [...] > > dose-debcheck doesn't like it: > > $ dose-debcheck -v -f -e > /home/chroot/wily-amd64/var/lib/apt/lists/de.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_wily_universe_binary-amd64_Packages > (I)StdLoaders: Parsing and normalizing... > (I)Packages: Parsing Packages file > /home/chroot/wily-amd64/var/lib/apt/lists/de.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_wily_universe_binary-amd64_Packages... > Fatal error in module common/format822.ml: > Parse error lines 700601:0--700601:1: > unexpected RFC 822 token : 'P' > > As the header is irrelevant to the installability problem, it would be > nice if the tools would just ignore the field. At the moment I'm > working around the problem using sed -e 's/^Python_/Python-/'. > > (Not sure if this is a bug or just wishlist, filing as normal as apt > and friends seem to work just fine with this Packages file.) This is actually a bug in the lexer. Debian fields names are indeed allowed to have all kind of wired characters : "The field name is composed of US-ASCII characters excluding control characters, space, and colon (i.e., characters in the ranges 33-57 and 59-126, inclusive). Field names must not begin with the comment character, #, nor with the hyphen character, -. " I'll fix this in the next release. p
