Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: important
-- System Information Debian Release: 2.2 Kernel Version: Linux betty.it.uc3m.es 2.6.15.4 #11 PREEMPT Fri Mar 31 18:52:16 CEST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux Versions of the packages apt depends on: hi libc6 2.1.3-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.4-22 The GNU stdc++ library % sudo apt-get source glpk Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 1026kB of source archives. E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/apt/lists/www.uk.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_source_Sources (1) E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object betty:/tmp% The culprit is the huge line about 89700 lines into the file: Package: linux-2.6 Binary: linux-image-2.6-k7 .... (masses and masses) .... Version: 2.6.16-5 Cutting that line to some shorter length works. I didn't test to see what the limit was. betty:/tmp% sudo apt-get source glpk Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 1026kB of source archives. Get:1 http://www.uk.debian.org testing/main glpk 4.9-1 (dsc) [544B] Get:2 http://www.uk.debian.org testing/main glpk 4.9-1 (tar) [1018kB] Get:3 http://www.uk.debian.org testing/main glpk 4.9-1 (diff) [7177B] Fetched 3B in 0s (12B/s) Skipping unpack of already unpacked source in glpk-4.9 betty:/tmp% Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]