Comment 3 for bug 550858

I've had this same (or very similar) problem for a long time, and apparently others have too.

Apparently, the problems I've been having have been "fixed" in Debian:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=307583

However, the fix is documented as a change somewhere between 0.4.0-1 to 0.4.4-1. If the version numbering matches my thinking, then Ubuntu is not using the most current version (my Ubuntu 10.04 install gives version 0.4.11.11).

So I've tried building a newer version of aptitude, and it seems nearly impossible. There are silly build errors all over the place (things like not including stdio.h but calling printf? what's up with that??). So if someone else knows how to verify that newer versions of aptitude have this fixed then please help.