Bug#155088: apt does segmentation fault after installing of a package

["Klaus Ethgen" <Klaus@Ethgen.de>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: critical
Tags: sid
Justification: causes serious data loss

After installing a package by dpkg (zipcracker-slave) apt do a
segmentation fault (apt-cache search ...). After deleting the entry of this package from the status file apt works well again. Other apt-Tool cannot parse the status-File (apt-get).

This hapens only to sid. On the aktual testing with the same packages
instelled apt works well.

The Entry in the status-File is the following:
Package: zipcracker-slave
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: unknown
Installed-Size: 41
Maintainer: Jonas Borgström <jonas_b@bitsmart.com>
Source: zipcracker
Version: 0.1.1-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), libpvm3
Description: PVM node program for zipcracker.
  ZipCracker is a program that helps users recover their files from password
  protected zip archives, when the user has forgotten the
  password. ZipCracker uses brute force to find the password.
  ZipCracker can also utilize BeoWulf clusters.
  This program should be installed on all nodes in the cluster.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux baloo 2.4.19-rc1 #1 Wed Jun 26 23:43:40 CEST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.2.5-12    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2       1:2.95.4-11 The GNU stdc++ library

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