- char* list[6];
- // dpkg sends multiline error messages sometimes (see
- // #374195 for a example. we should support this by
- // either patching dpkg to not send multiline over the
- // statusfd or by rewriting the code here to deal with
- // it. for now we just ignore it and not crash
- TokSplitString(':', line, list, sizeof(list)/sizeof(list[0]));
- if( list[0] == NULL || list[1] == NULL || list[2] == NULL)
+ // we need to split on ": " (note the appended space) as the ':' is
+ // part of the pkgname:arch information that dpkg sends
+ //
+ // A dpkg error message may contain additional ":" (like
+ // "failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb ..."
+ // so we need to ensure to not split too much
+ std::vector<std::string> list = StringSplit(line, ": ", 3);
+ if(list.size() != 3)