Bug#160938: dpkg: segfaults trying to print a list of packages that died

[Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.5
Severity: normal

Hi,

Look what I just saw :)

% sudo apt-get --purge remove lynx-ssl
Password:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  lynx-ssl*
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 71  not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 3596kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 64021 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing lynx-ssl ...
rm: cannot remove `/usr/doc/lynx-ssl': Is a directory
dpkg: error processing lynx-ssl (--purge):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault.

Notice the segmentation fault instead of printing "lynx-ssl".

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux pork 2.4.18 #17 Ned Tra 21 17:00:31 CEST 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
ii  dselect        1.10.5         a user tool to manage Debian packages
ii  libc6          2.2.5-14       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone