I can confirm this bug and that the patch: rm'ing the *.bak's in the "${LIVE_CHROOT}"/boot works.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy live-package live-package: Installed: 0.99.14-1 Candidate: 0.99.14-1 Version table: *** 0.99.14-1 0 990 http://debian.midco.net unstable/main Packages 990 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status also 404314 is a duplicate of this bug. A
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