bug#28502: 25.3; list-packages ends with "error in process filter: End of file during parsing"

[Alex Branham]

On Wed 27 Sep 2017 at 14:47, Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:

>> Perhaps there should be some sort of package-force-archive-refresh
>> function to force overwriting the archive contents?
>
> No, normally this should never happen, there seems to be a problem with
> inconsistent or broken package caches.  We need to find out what goes
> wrong.

I'm betting that during a package-refresh-contents call the internet 
disconnected and that this somehow messed up the package cache.

>
> Have you made a backup of the files you deleted btw?  They could be
> useful for debugging.

No, unfortunately I didn't. If it happens again I will do so.