Bug#58715: apt: slink->potato upgrade doesn't work

[<rh@ac.sch.bme.hu>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.10slink11

ac:~# apt-get install libc6
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  debianutils ldso
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  timezones
3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 197 not upgraded.
Need to get 1603kB of archives. After unpacking 4963kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 ftp://ftp.hu.debian.org potato/main ldso 1.9.11-5 [278kB]
Get:2 ftp://ftp.hu.debian.org potato/main debianutils 1.13.2 [29.1kB]
Get:3 ftp://ftp.hu.debian.org potato/main libc6 2.1.3-4 [1296kB]
Fetched 1603kB in 2s (595kB/s)
E: Internal Error, Couldn't configure a pre-depend
ac:~#



-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.1
Kernel Version: Linux ac 2.0.38 #2 Thu Dec 9 04:30:31 PST 1999 i486 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6           2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: shared libraries
ii  libstdc++2.9    2.91.66-0slink The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)