[driverloader] dldr-wpa-supplicant_0.4.6.0_i386.deb seems to corrupts /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Linuxant support (Jonathan)]

Hi,

thanks for reporting this problem. I will be fixed in a future release 
of the package if other users have the same problem with it.

Regards,


Jonathan
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com



Duchesne Family wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I just installed this Debian package on my Debian box:
> http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/archive/dldr-wpa-supplicant_0.4.6.0_i386.deb
> 
> After doing so, I was unable to update my system anymore: running
> 'apt-get update' or 'dselect, Update' would yield an error message
> indicating that the file /var/lib/dpkg/status could not be parsed.
> 
> I went ahead and binary searched the file to find the faulty package,
> which turned out to be dldr-wpa-supplicant. Apparently, the parser does
> not like the extraordinarily long 'Description:' field of the package. I
> truncated the field to only keep its first 2 lines, and everything went
> back to normal.
>