Bug#194804: apt: "getaddrinfo was unable to get a listening socket" (GNU/Hurd)

[Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.5.1
Severity: important
Tags: sid

installing version 0.5.5.1 renders apt unusable on GNU:

# apt-get -y --reinstall -d install bash
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 576kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main bash 2.05b-5 [576kB]
Err ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main bash 2.05b-5
  getaddrinfo was unable to get a listening socket
Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/bash/bash_2.05b-5_hurd-i386.deb  getaddrinfo was unable to get a listening socket
E: Some files failed to download

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: hurd-i386
Kernel: GNU aragorn 0.3 GNUmach-1.2/Hurd-0.3 i386-AT386
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc0.3                      2.3.1-5     GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                      1:3.3-0pre7 GCC support library
ii  libstdc++5                   1:3.3-0pre7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

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