[dpkg bug?] `packages.c:191: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed.'

[psu25682@odin.cc.pdx.edu (Karl M. Hegbloom)]

 I'm getting an assertion failure when I try to run `dpkg --configure
 --pending'.  It says:

dpkg: ../../../main/packages.c:191: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed.

 I put a typescript of running `strace', `ltrace', and `gdb', in case
 that's useful, at:

 <URL:http://master.debian.org/~karlheg/dpkg-assert-fails.typescript.gz>

 I have no clue what is wrong.  Is this a bug I should report against
 `dpkg'?

 Please advise.