Comment 23 for bug 159721

Just encountered the problem once again. Re-creating Release with "apt-ftparchive release ." didn't help at all. What I've found out was that the last entry in Packages was incomplete:
---
Package: alien
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 276
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <email address hidden>
--- and that's all, EOF here
When I removed that incomplete entry it worked fine (of course without alien package).
What I'd like to suggest to the developers is adding some Packages checking/fixing code as a workaround before the problem is fixed.