Bug#174945: apt: installing package with lots of conffiles breaks apt

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

Package: apt
Severity: important
Justification: breaks completely on valid input

Installing mailman 2.1 from .debs, which includes 642 conffiles breaks
apt.  aptitude stops working, apt-get stops working, apt-cache stops
working.  I guess the bug is in the Status file parser code
somewhere.  Purging the package makes apt work again.

http://raw.no/tmp/mailman-status-field is the status file fragment, or
you can get the debian packages off
http://ftp-master.debian.org/~doko/mailman/

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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