Bug#649487: detex: segfault with argument "--version"

[Matthew Wakeling <matthew@wakeling.homeip.net>]

Package: texlive-binaries
Version: 2009-8
Severity: normal

If I run detex with the argument "--version", then I get:

detex: warning: unknown option ignored - -
detex: warning: unknown option ignored - v
detex: warning: unknown option ignored - r
detex: warning: unknown option ignored - i
detex: warning: unknown option ignored - o
Segmentation fault

While this may seem an odd thing to do, the segfault is worrying, and should be investigated. A locally-compiled version of detex 2.8 downloaded from upstream does not exhibit the same problem - it produces the following:

detex: warning: unknown option ignored - -
detex: warning: unknown option ignored - v
detex: error: -e option requires and argument

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages texlive-binaries depends on:
ii  ed                    1.4-3              The classic UNIX line editor
ii  libc6                 2.11.2-10          Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libfontconfig1        2.8.0-2.1          generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6          2.4.2-2.1+squeeze1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1               1:4.4.5-8          GCC support library
ii  libkpathsea5          2009-8             TeX Live: path search library for 
ii  libncurses5           5.7+20100313-5     shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpng12-0            1.2.44-1+squeeze1  PNG library - runtime
ii  libpoppler5           0.12.4-1.2         PDF rendering library
ii  libstdc++6            4.6.1-4            GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6              2:1.3.3-4          X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7               2:1.0.7-1          X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxmu6               2:1.0.5-2          X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxpm4               1:3.5.8-1          X11 pixmap library
ii  libxt6                1:1.0.7-1          X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  perl                  5.10.1-17squeeze2  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  tex-common            2.08.1             common infrastructure for building
ii  texlive-common        2009-11            TeX Live: Base component
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3   compression library - runtime

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