Bruce Sass writes ("valgrind/dselect questions"):
> Figuring it would be a good learning experience to try out the recent
> patch for bug #395140 I applied it, installed the result, did:
dpkg and dselect have some custom memory allocation stuff. When I
wrote it it was hand-rolled but it was replaced by use of GNU obstacks
at some point :-/.
That would be top of my list of changes to back out.
Ian.