Dear maintainers, I managed to get aptitude running again, by deleting the files in /var/lib/.
Obviously these files had contents of incorrect dependencies, which caused aptitude to search for dependenciy solutions. I suppose, this reason is the same for bug #373846. IMO you can close this bugreport safely, and maybe bugreport #373846 as well. Anyway, thank you very much for reading this and the discussions in related and similar bugreports. It helped me, to find the reason for my own bug! Cheers Hans-J. Ullrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

