Bug#281958: apt-get upgrade segfaults

[Simon Morgan <sjmorgan@gmail.com>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.27
Severity: important

bollo:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  discover1-data groff-base kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386 klogd libuptimed manpages
  manpages-dev sysklogd tasksel uptimed usbutils zlib1g
12 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 16.8MB of archives.
After unpacking 295kB of additional disk space will be used.
Segmentation fault

-- Package-specific info:

-- apt-config dump --

APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";

-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --


-- /etc/apt/sources.list --

#deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main

deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main

deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-386
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                     1:3.4.2-2    GCC support library
ii  libstdc++5                  1:3.3.4-13   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

-- no debconf information