dpkg broken

[Chris Gray <cgray4@po-box.mcgill.ca>]

I recently upgraded my dpkg package to the latest in the unstable tree
because another package suggested it.  Now whenever I try to run dpkg I
get a Segmentation Fault.  That's it.  All the terminal says is
"Segmentation fault".  I don't know if it has anything to do with it,
but I am running the latest development kernel (I think 2.3.17).  Is
there some way to fix this problem without recompiling dpkg?  For some
reason I seem to be having an inordinate amount of trouble compiling it.

Thanks for your help,
Chris