Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.0-2
Severity: grave
Tags: d-i
Justification: breaks installer

All installations of unstable now end as follows:

Need to get 23.3MB of archives. After unpacking 87.5MB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Error!
E: failed to rename /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates to 
/var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates.old - save_selection_list (2 No such file or 
directory)
tasksel: aptitude failed

This occurs when tasksel runs aptitude to install the selected task(s).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.1 0.6.42.2   Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-7    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.0.2-3  GCC support library
ii  libncursesw5                  5.5-1      Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2             2.0.16-1   type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii  libstdc++6                    4.0.2-3    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information

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