Bug#86109: apt: "apt-cache search rsync" eats all my memory

[Philip Armstrong <phil@kantaka.co.uk>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.19
Severity: normal

As subject really. I tried running

$ apt-cache search rsync

and apt-cache ate all my memory and caused my system to go into heavy
swap thrash mode. Killing it took about five minutes...

(System has 128Mb real + 128Mb swap)

Phil

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux kantaka 2.4.0 #1 Fri Jan 5 09:28:13 GMT 2001 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6          2.2.1-2        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libstdc++2.10  2.95.2-14      The GNU stdc++ library