libstring-approx-perl broke updating Woody to Sarge

From: Lance Tagliapietra (lancetag_at_Luminet.net)
Date: 06/30/05

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    Help!

    I inadvertantly started upgrading my Woody system to Sarge when the new
    Sarge packages started showing up as security updates (I assume, since
    security.debian.org is in my apt sources list file).

    In any case, I decided to go and attempt the upgrade, and have run into
    the following problem now when attempting to use apt-get or dpkg or
    aptitude:

    dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 41026
    package `libstring-approx-perl':
     field name `Sectch' must be followed by colon

    I'm kinda in a catch-22, since even dpkg -l will abort with that error,
    nor can I seem to install or remove packages, as that error will come
    up.

    Note my oversight that I never did put "Sarge" in my sources.list.

    Is there a way I can fix this without restoring from backup?
    This is a m68k system.

    cc: debain-user.

    Thanks,

    --Lance
    LanceTag at Luminet dot net 

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