I've attached the status file. I worked around the bug by moving this file to status_bad and copying status-old to status. That got apt and update-manager working again, but it probably shouldn't have happened in the first place or been auto fixed by update-manager.
** Attachment added: "requested status file" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18563017/status_bad -- Could not initialize the package information https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282748 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs