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apt-get Failure



The sed package causes apt-get upgrade to stop.

root@debian-rtg:~# apt-get -f upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  libqt3-compat-headers libqt3-headers libqt3-mt-dev libqt3c102-mt
  qt3-dev-tools
The following packages will be upgraded:
  console-data inkscape kernel-image-2.6.9-1-686 kvim-perl libexif10
  mozilla-stumbleupon python-gnome2 python2.3-gnome2 qt3-assistant qt3-doc
  qt3-qtconfig valgrind vim vim-common vim-doc
15 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/35.8MB of archives.
After unpacking 1061kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Reading changelogs...
Preconfiguring packages ...
Setting up sed (4.1.2-2) ...

No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
install-info(/usr/share/info/sed.info): unable to determine description for 
`dir' entry - giving up
dpkg: error processing sed (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sed
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Can someone with more knowledge than myself provide some insight into this 
problem?

Bob
-- 
"She said, `I know you ... you cannot sing'.  I said, `That's nothing,
you should hear me play piano.'"
  -- Morrisey



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