Bug#33647: dpkg: dpkg segfaults with various packages

[ujr@physik.phy.tu-dresden.de (Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler)]

Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> Previously Florian Laws wrote:
>
> > On my system dpkg segfaults when unpacking either of the follwing
> > packages:
>
> Could you try testing an install with debug-option from dpkg enabled?
> See dpkg --Dhelp for details about enabling those.

I'm pretty sure, these segfaults are caused by LANG and/or LC_ALL.
Please try if the errors persist after "unset LANG LC_ALL"

(well, some Perl and dpkg expert should fix this problem anyway, it keeps
 coming - unfortunately I'm neither a Perl nor a dpkg (interna) expert)

  Ulf