Bug#176297: apt: Dynamic MMap ran out of room

[Paolo Benvenuto <donpaolo@gsi.it>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: critical

In my last apt-get update, after getting or hitting all the package 
files, I got:

Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occured while processing libmidgard5-dev (NewPackage)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

Same error running apt-get upgrade


-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux misiongenovesa 2.2.19 #2 ven ott 11 11:34:12 AST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=it_IT, LC_CTYPE=it_IT

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.2.5-14.3  GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2       1:2.95.4-11 The GNU stdc++ library