Bug#400768: "E: Wow, you exceeded the number of versions this APT is capable of"

[Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@lysator.liu.se>]

> Reading package lists... Error!
> E: Wow, you exceeded the number of versions this APT is capable of.
> E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

The ID fields of pkgCache::Package, pkgCache::PackageFile, and 
pkgCache::Version are all unsigned short. pkgCache::Dependency::ID is however 
a map_ptrloc, i.e. an unsigned int. Maybe it's time to increase the size of 
one or more of the others as well, if it's possible.

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Magnus Holmgren        holmgren@lysator.liu.se

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