Bug#173913: libc6.1_2.3.1-6 breaks ls and find on alpha arch

["Kevin M. Rosenberg" <kmr@debian.org>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.1-6
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software

Hi,

I've installed the above version of glibc on my alpha
system. Immediately during the install, dpkg reported that it could
not scan /var/lib/dpkg/updates/: function not implemented. Trying
/bin/ls gave the same error messsage. 'find /' only printed out "/".

I was able to manually revert back to 2.3.1-5 and everything worked
fine again.


-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: alpha
Kernel: Linux tiger 2.4.19 #2 SMP Tue Nov 12 14:20:05 MST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii  libdb1-compat                 2.1.3-7    The Berkeley database routines [gl