[Bug 801437] Re: parser too strict

[Sjoerd de Vries]

Thanks for the repsonse. I agree, it  would be nice if it could be
backported for the benefit of other late updaters to Natty.

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Title:
  parser too strict

Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Hi everyone,
  I spent the last few hours mounting and repairing my system from LiveCD because of a failed update to 11.04. The reason why my system got corrupted was a parsing error in /var/lib/dpkg/status and /available. It was caused by a .deb package (compiz-switch) with a "Priority: low" annotation. Of course this is an error of the .deb, but it seems to me that the dpkg parser is too strict in marking it as junk and hanging the whole system on it. Everything worked fine under 10.10. If the parser would treat any priorities it doesn't understand as "optional", I would be happy.

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