Comment 7 for bug 794747

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Michael Rodríguez-Torrent (mrtorrent) wrote : Re: [Bug 794747] Re: package_resource crashed with KeyError in get_packages()

Interesting result:

N: Unable to locate package lexmark-08z-series-driver
E: No packages found

The package came direct from the Lexmark site, I believe, possibly
here:
http://support.lexmark.com/index?page=content&id=DR20523&locale=EN&userlocale=EN_US

On Thu 22 Sep 2011 01:05:35 BST, Daniel Manrique wrote:
> Thanks Michael,
>
> Yes, I think the "Description" field in the package's information for
> lexmark-08z-series-driver is malformatted and is causing the display to
> be weird, which is indeed throwing off checkbox's package parser.
>
> I'll mark the bug as Triaged as we now have the output that causes the
> parser to error out, and we'd be able to handle this on checkbox's side.
> Importance: Low as it affects an "unusual configuration" (it's the first
> and only report of this kind we have).
>
> I'm curious, though, on the source of this package, where did you get
> it? I'd appreciate if you could point me to the source, also it would be
> interesting to have the output of this command:
>
> apt-cache show lexmark-08z-series-driver
>
> This is to determine what is wrong with that package and perhaps inform
> its maintainers that their control file is malformatted.
>
> Thanks!
>
> ** Changed in: checkbox (Ubuntu)
> Status: Incomplete => Triaged
>
> ** Changed in: checkbox (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>