dpkg

[B0Ti <9915104t@example.com>]

Evening,

I'm trying to install xtt-fonts.

[root@example.com lib]# apt-get install xtt-fonts
Reading Package Lists... Done
...
Unpacking xtt-fonts (from .../xtt-fonts_0.20010301-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up xtt-fonts (0.20010301-1) ...
Package: xtt-fonts will be removed
 but dpkg is running, so waiting in background...

Here it stops, so I run it again:

[root@example.com lib]# apt-get install xtt-fonts
...
Need to get 0B/5454B of archives. After unpacking 45.1kB will be used.
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 13045
package `xtt-fonts':
 missing version
W: Encountered status field in a non-version description
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

To fix this I have to manually remove the corrupt info field from
/var/lib/dpkg/status, otherwise dpkg will refuse to install anything
from here on.
I got the latest (v1.8.3.1) dpkg.

Is this a BUG or a feature? ;-)

--
B0Ti.