Bug#193333: apt-get no longer runs on 386 CPUs (Illegal instruction)

[Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.5
Severity: grave
Tags: sid
Justification: renders package unusable

Trying to run apt-get on a 386 CPU results in this error message:

Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
0x400349ff in Configuration::Lookup(Configuration::Item*, char const*, unsigned
long, bool) () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5.so.3.3
0x400349ff <_ZN13Configuration6LookupEPNS_4ItemEPKcmb+359>:
    lock xadd %eax,0xfffffffc(%edx)

# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : unknown
cpu family      : 3
model           : 0
model name      : 386
stepping        : unknown
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : no
cpuid level     : -1
wp              : no
flags           :
bogomips        : 7.93


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux prommer 2.4.20-1-386 #3 Sat Mar 22 12:11:40 EST 2003 i386
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.1-17    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                      1:3.3-0pre9 GCC support library
ii  libstdc++5                   1:3.3-0pre9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

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