When ever I updated packages, (they update) I receive the following message about TeXLive:dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 2888 package 'texlive-local': missing maintainerThis doesn't mess up the packages downloading or upgrading.  I would like to have this stop though.How can I do this?
Ubuntu 12.04: updating package message
ubuntu;upgrade;dpkg
The package texlive-local is malformed. The Maintainer field in packages is mandatory, even though it is not used for any technical reason it's more of a social requirement to give some tracability to all packages. The lack of this field does not cause any problem, but it's something that shouldn't happen, so dpkg is warning you. All official packages do have that field.The warning message would go away if you removed the texlive-local package or if you upgraded to a version with a Maintainer field. I recommend that you recommend to the maintainer of that package to add a Maintainer field with their email address. It goes into debian/control in the source tree.In the meantime, you can get rid of the warning by editing the package database and adding that field manually. Edit /var/lib/dpkg/status, search for a line containing exactly Package: texlive-local, and add a line containing Maintainer: someone@example.com just below (the address should be syntactically well-formed, but it doesn't have to be valid if you would prefer not to put somebody's name in there).