Package: sbuild Version: 0.69.0-2 Severity: important $ sbuild-update --update source:jessie-amd64-sbuild source:jessie-amd64-sbuild: Performing update. E: Syntax error /var/lib/sbuild/apt.conf:3: Malformed tag Exiting from update with status 100.
And the broken /var/lib/sbuild/apt.conf looks like this: $ cat /var/lib/sbuild/apt.conf APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated "true"; "APT::Install-Recommends "false"; APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant "false"; APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant "false"; Acquire::Languages "none"; This seems to be related to my .sbuildrc which contains "$apt_allow_unauthenticated = 1;". And this is confirmed by the code: if ($self->get_conf('APT_ALLOW_UNAUTHENTICATED')) { print $F qq(APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated "true";\n"); } Notice the final quote while it's the parenthesis that ends the string... -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages sbuild depends on: ii adduser 3.114 ii apt-utils 1.2.11 ii libsbuild-perl 0.69.0-2 ii perl 5.22.2-1 Versions of packages sbuild recommends: ii debootstrap 1.0.81 ii fakeroot 1.20.2-1 Versions of packages sbuild suggests: pn deborphan <none> ii wget 1.17.1-2 -- no debconf information