Bug#40641:

[Joerg Plate <plate@psyche.kn-bremen.de>]

Subject: updating available fails
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.1.3
Severity: normal

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Merging Available information
E: Invalid operation dumpavail

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux psyche.kn-bremen.de 2.3.6ac1 #11 Sat Jun 12 14:52:54 CEST 1999 i586

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  libc6           2.1.1-12       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii  libncurses4     4.2-3.2        Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii  libstdc++2.9-gl 2.91.66-2      The GNU stdc++ library (EGCS version)