Bug#669458: python-apt: apt_pkg.TagFile(sys.stdin) crashes

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

Package: python-apt
Version: 0.8.4
Severity: normal

apt_pkg.TagFile(sys.stdin) crashes:
| $ python -c 'import sys, apt_pkg as a; a.TagFile(sys.stdin)' < /dev/null
| terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error'
|   what():  basic_string::_S_construct null not valid
| Aborted

This used to work until very recently.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.3.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages python-apt depends on:
ii  libapt-inst1.5     0.9.1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12     0.9.1
ii  libc6              2.13-30
ii  libgcc1            1:4.7.0-3
ii  libstdc++6         4.7.0-3
ii  python             2.7.2-10
ii  python-apt-common  0.8.4
ii  python2.6          2.6.7-4
ii  python2.7          2.7.3~rc2-2

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Jakub Wilk