Bug#432913: segfault after upgrade to 0.7.10, and "auto-fixed"

[Ionut Ciocirlan <ionut.ciocirlan@gmail.com>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.7.10

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This just hit lenny:
# grep -e 'upgrade apt ' /var/log/dpkg.log
2008-02-15 18:00:38 upgrade apt 0.7.9 0.7.10

# apt-cache search dpkg
Segmentation fault
# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Segmentation faulty tree... 0%
# apt-get install
Reading package lists... Done
Segmentation faulty tree... 0%

# tail -n3 /var/log/kern.log
Feb 15 22:25:19 j-d kernel: apt-cache[4729]: segfault at 00002b634ded8170 rip 
0000000000403752 rsp 00007fff6a32e940 error 4
Feb 15 22:25:30 j-d kernel: apt-get[4731]: segfault at 00002b4372b13170 rip 
00002b4365616deb rsp 00007fff456f5a70 error 4
Feb 15 22:25:42 j-d kernel: apt-get[4732]: segfault at 00002b2981d44170 rip 
00002b2974847deb rsp 00007fff364c21f0 error 4

However, apt-cache policy worked, so I figured the culprit must be something 
malformed in /var/lib/apt/lists/.
Trying to discover what it hiccups on, i did dpkg -i strace from the cdrom. 
Next thing, everything went back to normal. It just works. Figure that..

Regards

--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64

Debian Release: lenny/sid
  599 testing         security.debian.org 
  599 testing         ftp.ro.debian.org 
  598 unstable        ftp.ro.debian.org 

--- Package information. ---
Depends                          (Version) | Installed
==========================================-+-================
debian-archive-keyring                     | 2007.07.31
libc6                           (>= 2.7-1) | 2.7-6
libgcc1                    (>= 1:4.1.1-21) | 1:4.3-20080202-1
libstdc++6                    (>= 4.2.1-4) | 4.3-20080202-1