If you get the following message from dpkg dpkg: ../../../main/packages.c:191: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed. Aborted (core dumped)
DO NOT report it as a bug against dpkg. There are already too many duplicate reports on this. There are two known triggers for that bug: * A package depends on itself. (This is a bug in the package.) * There is a dependency loop which involves a virtual package. (This would be valid use of the dependency fields, if this bug did not exist.) There are workarounds: * If you get that error when installing a package, try using --force-depends with dpkg. * If you are putting together a package and hit this bug when testing, you should check whether the package depends on itself or whether it is involved in a dependency loop that includes virtual packages. In the first case, a fix is obvious. In the second case, the package which depends on the virtual package should list real packages as alternatives to the virtual package so that the loop no longer includes the virtual package. Thanks. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% "... memory leaks are quite acceptable in many applications ..." (Bjarne Stroustrup, The Design and Evolution of C++, page 220)