Scott, Is it certain that this is a dpkg bug? I notice that the submitter's typescript shows he was using apt 0.5.27 when upgrading, which was before the Dpkg::MaxArgs setting was bumped to 1024 -- the first typescript shows a total of 640 packages being upgraded, and the second typescript shows 281 packages not fully installed or removed, so perhaps this is a bad dpkg invocation, not a bug in dpkg itself? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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