Bug#87390: apt-get: "E: I wasn't able to locate file for the guile1.3 package..."

[Malcolm Parsons <malcolm@ivywell.screaming.net>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.0
Severity: normal

output from apt-get dselect-upgrade:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  perl-5.005-doc* 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  guile1.3 liboh323v1 picview quicktime4linux-utils xmms-goom 
The following packages will be upgraded
  asclock-themes bc binutils bsdmainutils bsdutils cdparanoia dc debconf-utils
  digitaldj dnsutils eperl fetchmail ganso gnome-breakout gnome-control-center
  gnome-xbill gnomeicu gphone gpm gtkrecover gxanim isapnptools libarts
  libbind0 libbonobo2 libc6 libc6-dev libc6-i586 libcapplet0 libcdparanoia0
  libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libdps1 libefs1 libgc5 libglade-gnome0
  libglade0 libgpmg1 libgtkxmhtml1 liblcms liblocale-gettext-perl libmagick5
  libmng1 libnautilus0 libpanel-applet0 libqt2.2-mt libstdc++2.10-dev
  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libtimedate-perl libvorbis0 libwine libwraster2
  libxaw-dev libxaw6 libxaw7 libxml-dev libxml1 libxml2 libzvt2 licq locales
  man-db mysql-common mysql-doc php3 php3-mysql pidentd python-base recover
  sawfish-gnome tk8.3 wine winesetuptk wmaker wmusic wsoundserver xaw3dg
  xbase-clients xfonts-scalable xfree86-common xfs xlib6g xlib6g-dev
  xlibmesa-dev xlibmesa3 xlibosmesa-dev xlibosmesa3 xlibs xlibs-dev
  xscreensaver-gl xserver-common xserver-xfree86 xterm xutils 
94 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3  not upgraded.
E: I wasn't able to locate file for the guile1.3 package. This might mean you ne
ed to manually fix this package. (due to missing arch)
Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again
Press enter to continue.

If apt can't find guile1.3, it shouldn't just give up!

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux arthur 2.2.18 #1 Thu Dec 21 20:44:14 GMT 2000 i586

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.2.1-3     GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10                1:2.95.2-14 The GNU stdc++ library