Hi,
I can confirm this problem and I also agree with Gregor that it seems to
be very probably that the usage of libapt is responsible for the issue
since it occures at my box since I installed these packages:
$ grep libapt /var/log/dpkg.log | grep -w installed | grep -v half-
2016-08-10 18:06:09 status installed libapt-pkg5.0:amd64 1.3~pre3
2016-08-10 18:06:10 status installed libapt-inst2.0:amd64 1.3~pre3
Hope this helps tracking down the issue and I get a working without
my very dirty hack:
# mkdir -p /var/lib/apt/var/lib/dpkg/
# ln -s /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/apt/var/lib/dpkg/
Kind regards
Andreas.
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