Bug#220841: dpkg: install-info segmentation fault

[Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.9.21
Severity: normal

$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 225 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Reading changelogs... Done
Setting up glibc-doc (2.3.2.ds1-10) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/glibc-doc.postinst: line 19: 10303 Segmentation fault      install-info --quiet --section "GNU C library functions" "GNU C library functions" /usr/share/info/libc-dir-add.info
dpkg: error processing glibc-doc (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
Errors were encountered while processing:
 glibc-doc

$ sudo install-info --quiet --section "GNU C library functions" "GNU C library functions" /usr/share/info/libc-dir-add.info
Segmentation fault


-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux eeyore 2.5.52 #5 SMP Tue Jan 14 14:09:03 MST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-10   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5               5.3.20030719-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2    1:2.95.4-19    The GNU stdc++ library