Bug#544505: [aptitude] aptitude segfaults on update of package list in ui

[Jürgen Richtsfeld <richts@gmx.at>]

my apt is 0.7.23, I'm using amd64 unstable

On Tuesday 01 September 2009 08:35:20 Sven Joachim wrote:
> reassign 544505 apt
> thanks
>
> On 2009-09-01 07:11 +0200, Jürgen Richtsfeld wrote:
> > Package: aptitude
> > Version: 0.4.11.11-1+b2
> > Severity: grave
> >
> > --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
> >
> > updating the package list in the ncurses UI gives me
> > Ouch!  Got SIGABRT, dying..
> > Aborted
> > on the console.
> >
> > when I do aptitude update I get:
> > ...
> > 42% [2 Release 41686/100kB 41%] [Waiting for headers]terminate called
> > after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range'
> >   what():  basic_string::substr
> > Aborted
> >
> > (the same happens when I do apt-get update).
>
> Which means that the problem is in apt, obviously.  Your report does not
> tell which version of apt is installed, please submit that information.
>
> Sven