Package: dpkg
Version: 1.9.21
Severity: normal

Upgrading dpkg dies with error code 1:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ sudo aptitude install dpkg
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  dpkg
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1781kB of archives. After unpacking 2413kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 14276 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace dpkg 1.9.21 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.13.9_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.13.9_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.13.9_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Ack!  Something bad happened while installing packages.  Trying to recover:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.18-bf2.4
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-6        Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2      1:2.95.4-22  The GNU stdc++ library

dpkg recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dpkg is related to:
ii  reportbug                     3.13       reports bugs in the Debian distrib
pn  totem-gstreamer               <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information



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