vrms: ERROR- Badly formed dpkg-status entry #1381!
pkg=[libstdc++2.8], pkgstatus=[install ok installed], section=[]
Non-free packages installed on kodama
It's annoying to still be seeing this from vrms nearly 5 years after I filed
this bug. Especially since vrms would otherwise be proud of my system. So I
wrote a patch.
--- /usr/bin/vrms 2007-01-17 16:59:07.000000000 -0500
+++ vrms 2007-04-13 19:07:50.000000000 -0400
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@
}
}
}
- if (!$has_section or !$has_status or !$has_pkg) {
+ if (!$has_status or !$has_pkg) {
print STDERR "vrms: ERROR- Badly formed dpkg-status entry
#$clumpcnt!\n";
print STDERR " pkg=[$pkg], pkgstatus=[$pkgstatus],
section=[$section] \n";
}
I belive that this is correct; a missing section does not indicate that the
status entry is "badly formed", it's simply the consequence of installing a
package that does not contain section information. Few packages did
include that information until 1998. (It's true that vrms can't determine
if such packages are free or not.)
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