Bug#383976: unable to upgrade package libc6

[Tomasz Cichecki <knight@kopernet.org>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.6-19
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

I cannot upgrade from libc6_2.3.6-19 to libc6_2.3.6.ds1-2
Below screen dump:
knight@workingrock:/usr/share/doc/libc6$ export LC_ALL=C
knight@workingrock:/usr/share/doc/libc6$ sudo apt-get install libc6
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Suggested packages:
  glibc-doc
  The following packages will be upgraded:
    libc6
    1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 93 not upgraded.
    1 not fully installed or removed.
    Need to get 0B/4696kB of archives.
    After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
    (Reading database ... 175620 files and directories currently
    installed.)
    Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.6-19 (using
    .../libc6_2.3.6.ds1-2_i386.deb) ...
    Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
    dpkg: error processing
    /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.6.ds1-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
     dpkg: warning - old post-removal script killed by signal
     (Segmentation fault)

   dpkg: error while cleaning up:
    subprocess pre-installation script killed by signal (Segmentation
    fault)
   Errors were encountered while processing:
     /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.6.ds1-2_i386.deb
   E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii  tzdata                        2006g-2    Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time

libc6 recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information