"error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/language-pack-gnome-en_1%3a6.06+20070311_all.deb (--unpack)": when using apt-get upgrade

[Zeeshan Saeed Paracha]

Binary package hint: apt

I m using Ubuntu 6.06.1 Lts (2.6.15-27-386 #1 PREEMPT Fri Dec 8 17:51:56 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux)
and i m using it on many servers but i found this problem only in my desktop edition .

when i use this command apt-get update (it gives me no error ) then apt-upgrade it give me following errors :

root@SecureServ:/home/shani# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  linux-image-386 linux-restricted-modules-386 mozilla-acroread proftpd
  proftpd-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
  evolution evolution-data-server evolution-plugins file firefox
  firefox-gnome-support language-pack-gnome-en libaudio2 libcamel1.2-8
  libebook1.2-5 libecal1.2-3 libedata-book1.2-2 libedata-cal1.2-1
  libedataserver1.2-7 libedataserverui1.2-6 libegroupwise1.2-9
  libexchange-storage1.2-1 libmagic1 libmysqlclient15off libnspr4 libnss3
  libwpd8c2a mysql-common openoffice.org openoffice.org-base
  openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core
  openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-evolution openoffice.org-gnome
  openoffice.org-gtk openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-java-common
  openoffice.org-l10n-en-us openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-writer p7zip
  python-uno ttf-opensymbol xmms
41 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/94.8MB of archives.
After unpacking 1143kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/language-pa ck-gnome-en_1%3a6.06+20070311_all.deb (--unpack):
 files list file for package `language-pack-en' is missing final newline
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/language-pack-gnome-en_1%3a6.06+20070311_all.deb
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

"if i try to install or uninstall any of the ubuntu packages it gives me same above errors

[Zeeshan Saeed Paracha (paracha)]

If its not a bug then plz help me with this error, what wrong i did

[Jan Klopper (janklopper-innerheight)]

Hi

I just discovered this bug,

It seems the files list for these packages is corrupted,

I had the same error on multiple other packages.

It helped to delete all files from within the following folder /var/lib/dpkg/info/:

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/*

Since all files in that folder seem to be the same format length and content, i don't think dpkg realy needs them.