Dependencies broken

I would say that it is pretty crucial to fix this, because the package is totally uninstallable currently. Also as 'apt-get upgrade' would like to upgrade to this package...

root@a48:/home/vaatamoi# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  blt
Suggested packages:
  blt-demo
The following packages will be upgraded:
  blt
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/2050kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 19948 package `blt':
 `Depends' field, invalid package name `libx11/6': character `/' not allowed - only letters, digits and -+._ allowed
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

I don't have this issue with Gutsy.

jensen@atlantis:~$ sudo apt-get install blt
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  tk8.4
Suggested packages:
  blt-demo
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  blt tk8.4
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2506kB of archives.
After unpacking 6517kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Get:1 http://be.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main tk8.4 8.4.15-1build1 [1002kB]
Get:2 http://be.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main blt 2.4z-4 [1504kB]
Fetched 2506kB in 1s (1731kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package tk8.4.
(Reading database ... 154811 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking tk8.4 (from .../tk8.4_8.4.15-1build1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package blt.
Unpacking blt (from .../archives/blt_2.4z-4_i386.deb) ...
Setting up tk8.4 (8.4.15-1build1) ...

Setting up blt (2.4z-4) ...

Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
jensen@atlantis:~$

Yes,
well that might not be the case for newer releases, but as I am using Dapper LTS (Long-Term Support), it would be nice if the support actually was long term... :)

the dependencies of blt are correct (apt-cache show blt); it looks like the status file /var/lib/dpkg/status is corrupted.

This hasn't been touched in a while...

Lassi: Is this still a problem for you?

Matthias: Any steps to take to fix the (suspected to be) corrupted file? Any idea how the file may have been corrupted?

Over 2 months with no response. We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!