vector: Debian - apt repo - package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened

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So moving from filebeat to vector, I noticed that apt would failt on the few (cough) debian8 systems we have left, due to the vector repo... any chance this could get fixed? What I see is this:

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Get:2 https://repositories.timber.io jessie/main amd64 Packages [533 B]
Fetched 5,449 B in 3s (1,443 B/s)
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Problem parsing dependency Depends
E: Error occurred while processing vector (NewVersion2)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/repositories.timber.io_public_vector_deb_debian_dists_jessie_main_binary-amd64_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

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State: closed
Created 4 years ago
Comments: 15 (10 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Fix #5642 - build deb packages that install on Deb 8 Signed-off-by: James Turnbull <james@lovedthanlost.net> — committed to vectordotdev/vector by jamtur01 3 years ago

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I was able to republish the nightly packages with the fix as well so I think we are clear of this issue now. Thanks for raising it up @amexboy . Let me know if you still see any issues.

jszwedko on Mar 12, 2021

Apologies for the long delay in this one @amexboy . I was able to backport the fix to 0.11.0 and 0.11.1 so the apt manifest no longer fails to parse on Debian 8 (I verified using Docker).

I still need to update the nightly repo to fix the 0.11 version over there. I’ll aim to do that tomorrow.

jszwedko on Mar 12, 2021