Bug#976102: a2ps 32-bit segfaults on startup

[Mack Stanley <mcs1937@gmail.com>]

Package: a2ps
Version: 1:4.14-5
Severity: important


Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

Installation of a2ps on a new installation of 32-bit buster.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

Try running a2ps with various inputs  and configuration files

   * What was the outcome of this action?

a2ps immediately segfaults with no core dump, even when run with no 
arguments.  The only exception that I found is
that "a2ps --version" returns the expected information:

__________
GNU a2ps 4.14
Written by Akim Demaille, Miguel Santana.

Copyright (c) 1988-1993 Miguel Santana
Copyright (c) 1995-2000 Akim Demaille, Miguel Santana
Copyright (c) 2007- Akim Demaille, Miguel Santana and Masayuki Hatta
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
__________

IMPORTANT: It is only the 32-bit build of a2ps that segfaults.
I have installed the 64-bit version (on another machine, of course).  It 
works fine.
___________

ldd shows a2ps is linked to

	linux-gate.so.1 (0xb7f7b000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0xb7de9000)
	libpaper.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpaper.so.1 (0xb7de4000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0xb7c06000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f7d000)

I'm sorry I'm not able to provide more helpful information, but a 
segfault with no core dump doesn't give me anything to chew on.


   * What outcome did you expect instead?

No segfault.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 
'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-11-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages a2ps depends on:
ii  file       1:5.35-4+deb10u1
ii  libc6      2.28-10
ii  libpaper1  1.1.28
ii  psutils    1.17.dfsg-4

Versions of packages a2ps recommends:
ii  bzip2           1.0.6-9.2~deb10u1
ii  cups-bsd [lpr]  2.2.10-6+deb10u3
ii  cups-client     2.2.10-6+deb10u3
ii  wdiff           1.2.2-2+b1

Versions of packages a2ps suggests:
ii  emacsen-common                       3.0.4
ii  ghostscript                          9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u4
pn  groff                                <none>
ii  gv                                   1:3.7.4-2
pn  html2ps                              <none>
ii  imagemagick                          8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1+deb10u1
ii  imagemagick-6.q16 [imagemagick]      8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1+deb10u1
ii  t1-cyrillic                          4.17
ii  texlive-binaries [texlive-base-bin]  2018.20181218.49446-1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/a2ps-site.cfg changed [not included]
/etc/a2ps.cfg changed [not included]

-- no debconf information