Hmm, well, dpkg 1.14.21 is supposed to fix http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=486843 which at least has the same symptoms. I'm a bit perturbed because this seems to be cleaning up after a bogus state that dpkg shouldn't have managed to get itself into short of ENOSPC, which isn't the case here.
Nevertheless, I think I'll just merge dpkg 1.14.22 and see if this is still reproducible after that.
Hmm, well, dpkg 1.14.21 is supposed to fix http:// bugs.debian. org/cgi- bin/bugreport. cgi?bug= 486843 which at least has the same symptoms. I'm a bit perturbed because this seems to be cleaning up after a bogus state that dpkg shouldn't have managed to get itself into short of ENOSPC, which isn't the case here.
Nevertheless, I think I'll just merge dpkg 1.14.22 and see if this is still reproducible after that.