[R-sig-Debian] malformed Release files on CRAN for Ubuntu

[George N. White III]

$ sudo apt-get update
[...]
W: Failed to fetch
http://mirror.its.dal.ca/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu/lucid/Release  Unable
to find expected entry  Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release
file?)

$ wget -q -O - http://mirror.its.dal.ca/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu/lucid/Release
Architectures: i386 amd64 all source
Codename: lucid
Components: main
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:01:01 UTC
Description: R packages for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04
Label: CRAN
Origin: CRAN
Suite: lucid
Version: 10.04
MD5Sum:
 61cb2ac40c3f8d9959977c53e0a69738              211 Release
SHA1:
 61c6769f788b1eec1c3aee5aae189e17b087d8af              211 Release
SHA256:
 795fd0ad7f94b0e6038a5bbcba52608446a7f02eb81d4d198176aba2b5092a9b
        211 Release

Several other mirrors have the same file.

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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia