Emacs23 upgrade fails

[Paul Roge <proge@riseup.net>]

Emacs fails to upgrade on debian wheezy mipsel for my lemote yeeloong... what a shame! Anything to do?

Setting up emacs23 (23.4+1-2) ...
emacs-install emacs23
install/dictionaries-common: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour emacs23
emacs23: malloc.c:3096: sYSMALLOc: Assertion `(old_top == (((mbinptr) (((char *) &((av)->bins[((1) - 1) * 2])) - __builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk, fd)))) && old_size == 0) || ((unsigned long) (old_size) >= (unsigned long)((((__builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk, fd_nextsize))+((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) - 1)) & ~((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) - 1))) && ((old_top)->size & 0x1) && ((unsigned long)old_end & pagemask) == 0)' failed.
Fatal error (6)Aborted
emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/dictionaries-common emacs23 xemacs21 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28, <TSORT> line 2.
dpkg: error processing emacs23 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 134