Bug#47557: apt: internal error

[Adam Kumiszcza <qman@from.pl>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.13
Severity: grave

I got the following error while running apt-get to install previously
downloaded packages:

psycho:~# apt-get  --no-download --ignore-missing dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back
  dhis gimp gimp-nonfree gqview libgimp1 libwine lynx-ssl slang1 wine
wine-doc wpolish
6 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
40 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 534kB/1346kB of archives. After unpacking 3072B will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
E: Internal Error, ordering was unable to handle the media swap

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux psycho 2.3.20 #5 Sun Oct 10 03:49:43 CEST 1999 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6           2.1.2-5        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii  libstdc++2.10   2.95.2-0pre2   The GNU stdc++ library