In my continuing attempts to pin this bug, I have rebuilt dpkg and apt from sources with nostrip, but aptitude-0.4.11.11 does not rebuild on current testing. I guess I could try 0.6.1-1 from sid or maybe aptitude-dbg.
It seems as if apt-get no longer has problems installing from /dvd - I haven't done enough testing to be sure - so I speculate that it may be some synchronisation problem between aptitude, the cdrom method and dpkg. Hence my attempt to get an aptitude with symbols running under gdb. Any advice from the people who know the code? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org