Bug#47613: base: apt-get upgrade breaks apt-get

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Package: base
Version: 19991017
Severity: important

apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 125 not upgraded.
36 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (100)
E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt


-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux thix 2.2.12 #4 SMP Wed Oct 13 13:30:21 MST 1999 i586 unknown