Is there a bug in apt-listbugs?

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

Hi All

Trying to do the usual daily upgrade of sid yesterday produced the
following error:

Fetched 6161kB in 31s (197kB/s)
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... 0% [0/19] W: invalid compressed data -- crc
error: dhcp3-client
W: invalid compressed data -- crc error: dselect
W: invalid compressed data -- crc error: libdbus-glib-1-2
W: invalid compressed data -- crc error: zlib1g
W: invalid compressed data -- crc error: libtiff4
W: invalid compressed data -- crc error: manpages
... E: Too many errors while retrieving bug reports
E: Sub-process if dpkg -s apt-listbugs | grep -q '^Status: .* ok
installed'; then /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || ( test $? -ne 10 ||
exit 10; echo 'Warning: apt-listbugs exited abnormally, hit enter
key to continue.' 1>&2 ; read a < /dev/tty ); fi returned an error
code (10)
E: Failure running script if dpkg -s apt-listbugs | grep -q
'^Status: .* ok installed'; then /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || (
test $? -ne 10 || exit 10; echo 'Warning: apt-listbugs exited
abnormally, hit enter key to continue.' 1>&2 ; read a < /dev/tty
); fi
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:

Supposing this would clear I tried again today but the problem
persists.  I checked the BTS for a bug report on apt-listbugs but
couldn't find anything recent. Although it barfs on dhcp3-client in this
instance, if I 'hold' this package, it barfs on the next one.

Is this a bug in apt-listbugs or a problem with dpkg?  I'm happy
to file a bug report but don't really understand what I'm looking
at.

This is in amd64 (the 32bit chroot updates fine).

Thanks

Clive

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