Bug#184730: me too...
Just ran into something very similar... This is with
ii apt 0.7.20.2+lenny1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
This is a really old bug, but I don't recall running into it before.
Config info generated by reportbug appended at the end...
Regards, Faheem.
silkworm:/home/faheem# apt-get install postgresql-8.4/lenny-backports
libpq5/lenny-backports postgresql-client-8.4/lenny-backports
postgresql-common/lenny-backports postgresql-client-common/lenny-backports
postgresql-client-common/lenny-backports
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Selected version 8.4.0-1~bpo50+1 (Backports.org
archive:None/lenny-backports) for postgresql-8.4
Selected version 8.4.0-1~bpo50+1 (Backports.org
archive:None/lenny-backports) for libpq5
Selected version 8.4.0-1~bpo50+1 (Backports.org
archive:None/lenny-backports) for postgresql-client-8.4
Selected version 99~bpo50+1 (Backports.org archive:None/lenny-backports)
for postgresql-common
Selected version 99~bpo50+1 (Backports.org archive:None/lenny-backports)
for postgresql-client-common
Selected version 99~bpo50+1 (Backports.org archive:None/lenny-backports)
for postgresql-client-common
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
libpqxx-2.6.9ldbl
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
libpq5 postgresql-8.4 postgresql-client-8.4 postgresql-client-common
postgresql-common
Suggested packages:
postgresql-doc-8.4
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libpq-dev libpqxx-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
postgresql-8.4 postgresql-client-8.4
The following packages will be upgraded:
libpq5 postgresql-client-common postgresql-common
3 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 6603kB of archives.
After this operation, 16.1MB of additional disk space will be used.
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Subject: apt: foo
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.20.2+lenny1
Severity: normal
*** Please type your report below this line ***
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "amd64";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "1";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::Acquire "";
APT::Acquire::Translation "environment";
APT::Authentication "";
APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
APT::Cache-Limit "156777216";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
Dir::Log "var/log/apt";
Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Invoke "";
DPkg::Pre-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/sbin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper pre-install; fi";
DPkg::Post-Invoke "";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/sbin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper post-install; fi";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
RPM "";
RPM::Pre-Invoke "";
RPM::Pre-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/sbin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper pre-install; fi";
RPM::Post-Invoke "";
RPM::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/sbin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper post-install; fi";
-- /etc/apt/preferences --
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 50
Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 1
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
deb-src http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib
deb-src http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib
deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ experimental main non-free contrib
deb-src http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ experimental main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ lenny-backports main contrib non-free
deb-src http://hacking.dk/debs sid main
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-vserver-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2009.01.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
ii aptitude 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 terminal-based package manager
ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.25 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii python-apt 0.7.7.1+nmu1 Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii synaptic 0.62.1+nmu1 Graphical package manager
-- no debconf information
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