Bug#173616: apt-cache segfaults while apt-get update is downloading

["H. Jones" <inzanekaoz@yahoo.com>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal
Tags: sid

apt package version 0.5.4

apt-cache segfaults (with options 'show', 'search', possibly others) while apt-get
is run with the 'update' option and is currently downloading.


Expected response is an error message regarding not being able to transverse the 
database while it is being updated instead of crashing.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux vee5 2.4.19 #2 SMP Fri Nov 8 20:51:23 PST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.1-5     GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2       1:2.95.4-15 The GNU stdc++ library

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