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dpkg-preconfigure error messages



Hello,

suddenly I start to get mighty frightening error messages:

    plonk:~# apt-get install --reinstall dpkg
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
    Need to get 0B/1656kB of archives.
    After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
    String found where operator expected at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 96, near "die sprintf(gettext(""
      (Might be a runaway multi-line "" string starting on line 94)
	    (Missing semicolon on previous line?)
    Bareword found where operator expected at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 96, near "die sprintf(gettext("debconf"
	    (Do you need to predeclare die?)
    Unquoted string "debconf" may clash with future reserved word at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 96.
    String found where operator expected at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 103, near "gettext(""
      (Might be a runaway multi-line "" string starting on line 96)
	    (Missing semicolon on previous line?)
    Bareword found where operator expected at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 104, near "$package, $confmodule"
      (Might be a runaway multi-line ff string starting on line 103)
	    (Missing operator before dule?)
    Unquoted string "dule" may clash with future reserved word at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 104.
    syntax error at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 96, near "die sprintf(gettext(""
    Unmatched right curly bracket at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 108, at end of line
    syntax error at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 108, near "}"
    Execution of /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure aborted due to compilation errors.
    (Reading database ... 158298 files and directories currently installed.)
    Preparing to replace dpkg 1.10.26 (using .../d/dpkg/dpkg_1.10.26_i386.deb) ...
    Unpacking replacement dpkg ...
    Setting up dpkg (1.10.26) ...

Is this problem known?  What is the cause of this?  I checked both the
dpkg and the gettext bug report pages but did not recognise anything similar.

All the best,
Jochen
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