Bug#44671: apt tries to run something it can't

["Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho" <ajk@debian.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.12
Severity: normal

I'm not sure if this is an apt bug or if it's a local configuration error or
something entirely different.  I have no ideas on how to debug this - both
ltrace and strace seem to give me no clues.

Observe:
$ sudo apt-get -y dselect-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
37 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/8298kB of archives. After unpacking 1405kB will be used.
/bin/sh: /bin/sh: cannot execute binary file
E: Write error - write (32 Broken pipe)
$ 

This has consistently happened on me with the new apt version all the time.
Doing a dpkg -iGROEB on the apt archives shows no errors, so it seems to have
nothing to do with what packages were downloaded today.

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux gaia.pp.sci.fi 2.2.12 #1 pe elo    27 23:57:43 EEST 1999 i686

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.1.2-1    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10                 1:2.95.1-2 The GNU stdc++ library