Ubuntu
dctrl-tools package

  1. Bug #583476
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 583476

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Dotan Dimet (dotan) wrote :

This bug broke my upgrade from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04
The upgrade rebooted, but packages (like grub) weren't successfully upgraded because of the parsing error this entry contained.
Adding a '.' in the blank line in the description (in /var/lib/dpkg/status and /var/lib/dpkg/available) allowed me to recover (using apt-get commands from the command line).