[R-sig-Debian] problem with update.packages

[Simon Blomberg]

Hi, is anyone else getting this error? Could this be a bug?:

> update.packages(ask=FALSE)
Error in read.dcf(pkgpath, fields = fields) : 
  Line starting 'unix; ...' is malformed!

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.8.0 RC (2008-10-12 r46696) 
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu 

locale:
LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.8.0
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Simon.
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