Bug#196071: apt-get upgrade results in a segmentation fault

[Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>]

Davide Frey <frey@elet.polimi.it> writes:

> I tried doing that, although files were in /var/cache/apt.
> Nevertheless, apt-get update recreates them and any subsequent apt-get
> upgrade or other commant continues to fail in the same manner.
> Both files are approximately 7 MB large.

Have you tried use apt in simulation mode? 

Try:

apt-get install -s something

And see if this does the same. If possible, include the output here.

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