Bug#194552: dpkg --admindir=/var/lib/dpkg/ --update-avail /var/cache/apt/available segfaults

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.10
Severity: important
Tags: sid

Hi all,
	this is a quite strange problem I am facing.

calling dselect update I receive a segfault from:

/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/update line 42

that exanded is:

dpkg --admindir=/var/lib/dpkg/ --update-avail /var/cache/apt/available

In a vague attempt to strace the command.. it worked perfectly...
hounestly I am a bit puzzled...

What should i look for? Any help or info would be really appreciated
as well please let me know any kind of action i can take to provide
more information back.

Thanks
Fabio

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: m68k
Kernel: Linux goldrake 2.4.20 #1 Fri May 16 04:43:07 UTC 2003 m68k
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  dselect                       1.10.10    a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii  libc6                         2.3.1-17   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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