Bug#35362: dpkg: dpkg segfaults with LANG=de_DE / LC_ALL=de during apt-get dist-upgrade
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.34
dpkg keeps segfaulting, leaving half-installed _extremely_ broken packages
lying around, when using the German message files. This happened repeatedly
with
- xemacs20-support
- emacs20
- slrn
and a couple other times (all from slink) with other packages I don't
remember any more. When unSETting LC_ALL and LANG, dpkg works fine.
This made me quite nervous because I was updateing a production machine.
Thank $DEITY nothing happened =;()
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.1
Kernel Version: Linux debian 2.2.3 #7 Mit Mär 24 08:38:54 CET 1999 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
ii libc6 2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: shared libraries
ii libncurses4 4.2-3 Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii libstdc++2.9 2.91.60-5 The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)
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