Bug#225487: apache-ssl: Postinstall fails with a "sed" error

[Doug Maxwell <doug@themaxwells.org>]

Package: apache-ssl
Version: 1.3.29.0.1-3
Severity: grave
Tags: sid
Justification: renders package unusable

Error occurs immediately after entering information needed for creation
of self-signed certificate:

doug@hades:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up apache-ssl (1.3.29.0.1-3) ...
sed: -e expression #4, char 42: Unknown option to `s'
dpkg: error processing apache-ssl (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
apache-ssl
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
doug@hades:~$
  

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux hades 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages apache-ssl depends on:
ii  apache-common               1.3.29.0.1-3 Support files for all Apache webse
ii  debconf                     1.3.22       Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                        1.10.18      Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdb4.1                    4.1.25-10    Berkeley v4.1 Database Libraries [
ii  libexpat1                   1.95.6-6     XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libkeynote0                 2.3-10       Decentralized Trust-Management sys
ii  libmagic1                   4.06-2       File type determination library us
ii  libpam0g                    0.76-14      Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libssl0.9.7                 0.9.7c-5     SSL shared libraries
ii  logrotate                   3.6.5-2      Log rotation utility
ii  mime-support                3.23-1       MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  openssl                     0.9.7c-5     Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a
ii  perl [perl5]                5.8.2-2      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  ssl-cert                    1.0-6        Simple debconf wrapper for openssl

-- debconf information:
  apache-ssl/server-admin: webmaster@localhost
* apache-ssl/enable-suexec: false
  apache-ssl/init: true
  apache-ssl/server-name: localhost
  apache-ssl/document-root: /var/www

My version of sed:
															      ii sed 4.0.7-3