It seems that most affected by this bug are trying to install the Canon
Pixma-series drivers. I've got mine working, and here's how I did it:

1. Add the line
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric main
to your /etc/apt/sources.list

2. Run
sudo apt-get update
DO NOT APT-GET UPGRADE. I don't know what it'll do, but you may end up 
reverting a good chunk of your system's packages manually.

3. Run
Code:
sudo apt-get install dpkg
4. Go into Synaptic (System-Administration-Synaptic Package Manager), search 
for dpkg. Select dpkg.

5. Under "Package," choose "Lock Version."

6. Remove or comment out the oneiric line from your
/etc/apt/sources.list

7. Run
sudo apt-get update
again.

8. In the install.sh script from the Canon drivers, change
dpkg -iG
to
dpkg -iG --force-all

Unpleasant side-effect: dpkg will detect those packages as broken, so
update-manager tosses up errors once in a while. I'm willing to live
with that if I can print.

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Title:
  dpkg regression --force-depends

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