I have seen this bug in version 0.6.42.3 and in my case the "terminate" output was due to a bug in DPkgPM::Go. That function fails to parse status outputs from dpkg that span more than one line.
Specifically, this dpkg output causes DPkgPM::Go to crash (two lines): status: big : error : Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Note the second line that starts with a space. DPkgPM::Go can't deal with that; it doesn't expect continuation lines at all. Concretely, it is not checking that the call to TokSplitString actually has found the expected fields. (Bad boy! Go to bed without dinner!) Using dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq just gets rid of the problematic package and thus the bug is not triggered anymore. Fixing the crash by simply ignoring the second line is of course the easy and wrong solution. DPkgPM::Go should be able to deal with continuation lines like this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
