Bug#41611: dpkg fails in process_queue

[Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <gaia@iki.fi>]

severity 41611 normal
merge 41611 39275
thanks

On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 02:49:31PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> ishtar:~/tmp> sudo  dpkg --configure -a
> dpkg: ../../../main/packages.c:191: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' 
> failed.
> Abort

Known bug.

> How do I get out from here? apt-get triggers the same problem:

dpkg --force-depends --configure cmucl cmucl-small cmucl-safe

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