* merged from the auto-install branch

[apt.git] / apt-pkg / deb / deblistparser.cc

diff --git a/apt-pkg/deb/deblistparser.cc b/apt-pkg/deb/deblistparser.cc
index 97553ab825d2dd6c0982cfd436b020c98aee4658..c2b26b5eb5322a8f4543a89bea742bf65004ef6c 100644 (file)
--- a/apt-pkg/deb/deblistparser.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/deb/deblistparser.cc
@@ -420,12 +420,12 @@ const char *debListParser::ParseDepends(const char *Start,const char *Stop,
       const char *End = I;
       for (; End > Start && isspace(End[-1]); End--);
       
-      Ver = string(Start,End-Start);
+      Ver.assign(Start,End-Start);
       I++;
    }
    else
    {
-      Ver = string();
+      Ver.clear();
       Op = pkgCache::Dep::NoOp;
    }
    
@@ -547,11 +547,12 @@ bool debListParser::ParseProvides(pkgCache::VerIterator Ver)
       Start = ParseDepends(Start,Stop,Package,Version,Op);
       if (Start == 0)
         return _error->Error("Problem parsing Provides line");
-      if (Op != pkgCache::Dep::NoOp)
-        return _error->Error("Malformed provides line");
-
-      if (NewProvides(Ver,Package,Version) == false)
-        return false;
+      if (Op != pkgCache::Dep::NoOp) {
+        _error->Warning("Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package %s", Package.c_str());
+      } else {
+        if (NewProvides(Ver,Package,Version) == false)
+           return false;
+      }
 
       if (Start == Stop)
         break;