Bug#43055: dpkg: Assertion failed ...

[Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler <ujr@physik.phy.tu-dresden.de>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.1.6
Severity: important

Hi,

 during the last apt-get run, I got the following error message (which is reproducable
 by dpkg --pending --configure -D2000 - note that -D2000 doesn't show any debug output):

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

 What do you need to get more information? The debug flags don't give anything usable.
 Should I send the status and/or available file (maintonly, I guess ;-)

 And what should I do to workaround the problem? Right now dpkg doesn't want to work :(

 Thanks,

  Ulf


-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux pkfp20 2.2.11 #1 Fri Aug 13 16:28:33 CEST 1999 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
ii  libc6           2.1.2-0pre7    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)