Comment 30 for bug 46530

For form's sake, here's a stable release update proposal which I've distilled from this bug:

  Impact: Once certain packages have been installed, dpkg will always fail with "process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed." The affected package can be determined using the 'dpkg --audit' command, but this is not typically obvious to end users, so the net result is at best obscure errors on any upgrade.

  Development branch fix: Debian bug 370017, dpkg 1.3.21, merged in Edgy as dpkg 1.3.21ubuntu1; see https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/blt/+bug/46530/comments/18.

  Patch: http://librarian.launchpad.net/4900695/dpkg.diff per Adam above.

mdz approved this on IRC, and I do also.