Bug#143302: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives: update-alternatives fails

[James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.18
Severity: normal
File: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives
Followup-For: Bug #143302

Upon installing wdm (ihmo unrelated) update-alternatives fails:

update-alternatives: error or eof reading
/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-session-manager for manflag ()

cheers
James

PS: I upgraded to unstable, why does my release information still say
"testing/unstable" ?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux daisy 2.4.19 #1 Sat Nov 29 22:43:57 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  dselect                     1.10.18      a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

-- no debconf information