[Bug 1848570] Re: Skip individual bad sources

[Julian Andres Klode]

It does just that

** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Skip individual bad sources

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Yesterday I was unable to update *any* packages on my system, just
  because *one* source sent a malformed package list. apt-get update
  gave:

  E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
  E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/adoptopenjdk.jfrog.io_adoptopenjdk_deb_dists_disco_main_binary-amd64_Packages
  E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

  When this happens, apt should degrade gracefully by skipping just that
  one package list, and continuing to process all the others, so that
  unaffected packages can still be updated. Otherwise, we don't have the
  resilient, fault-tolerant system that people expect when they choose
  Ubuntu or Debian.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
  Package: apt 1.8.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-31.33-generic 5.0.21
  Uname: Linux 5.0.0-31-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Thu Oct 17 12:14:44 2019
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-06-18 (120 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-06-26 (112 days ago)

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