apt upgrade gives error while retrieving bugs

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Today while upgrading my router/firewall machine running Debian Testing,
kernel 2.6.11-1-686, I got this surprising error:
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:~# apt-get  upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  aspell-en foomatic-gui gconf2 hal icewm icewm-common libaspell15
libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libeel2-2 libgconf2-4 libgnome-desktop-2
  libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common
libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libpanel-applet2-0 libreadline4
libreadline5
  python-foomatic python2.3-gnome2 sysvinit udev w3m w3m-img
The following packages will be upgraded:
  base-config base-files cpio cpp-4.0 deborphan dictionaries-common dpkg
dselect eject fvwm g++-4.0 gcc-4.0 gcc-4.0-base gnome-keyring grep gs-gpl
  libbz2-1.0 libfribidi0 libgcc1 libgksu1.2-0 libglib2.0-0
libgnome-keyring0 libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprint2.2-data libgsf-1
libgtk2.0-0
  libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libhtml-tagset-perl libldap2
libnewt0.51 libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libselinux1 libslang2
libslp1 libstdc++6
  libstdc++6-4.0-dev login lsb-base man-db netbase passwd pppoeconf
python-glade2 python-gtk2 python-newt python2.3 python2.3-glade2
python2.3-gtk2
  sharutils sudo telnet ucf whiptail zenity
56 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 27 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/29.2MB of archives.
After unpacking 1222kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... 0% [0/56] W: not in gzip format: python2.3-glade2
 W: not in gzip format: dselect
 W: not in gzip format: sharutils
 W: not in gzip format: libgtk2.0-common
 W: not in gzip format: libhtml-tagset-perl
 W: not in gzip format: libslang2
 W: not in gzip format: libgnome-keyring0
 W: not in gzip format: whiptail
 W: not in gzip format: passwd
 ... E: Too many errors while retrieving bug reports
E: Sub-process if dpkg -s apt-listbugs | grep -q '^Status: .* ok
installed'; then /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || ( test $? -ne 10 || exit
10; echo 'Warning: apt-listbugs exited abnormally, hit enter key to
continue.' 1>&2 ; read a < /dev/tty ); fi returned an error code (10)
E: Failure running script if dpkg -s apt-listbugs | grep -q '^Status: .*
ok installed'; then /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || ( test $? -ne 10 ||
exit 10; echo 'Warning: apt-listbugs exited abnormally, hit enter key to
continue.' 1>&2 ; read a < /dev/tty ); fi
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Anybody else having this problem?

->HS