Bug#34136: dpkg: dpkg: ../../../main/packages.c:191: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed.

[Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>]

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho writes ("Bug#34136: dpkg: dpkg: ../../../main/packages.c:191: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed."):
> I was hit by the same or a similar bug.  The symptom was the same
> assertion failure.  There were two unconfigured packages:
>   libggi2  (990212-1)
>   libggi-target-vcsa (990212-1)
> If I did
>   dpkg --configure --pending
> I got the assertion failure.  These two packages interdepend, so I
> could't simply configure one first and then another.
> 
> I was, however, able to configure libggi-target-vcsa with --force-depends,
> configuring libggi2 on a separate run.  This is my workaround.

Does one of these packages have a dependency on itself ?

Ian.