Bug#677704: FWIW -- this affects fresh installations

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko
<debian@onerussian.com> wrote:
> Just installed kfreebsd-amd64 in a VM with 2GB of ram and could not do
> anything with APT due to this failure -- not update, nor install.  So
> any new installation would be effected by this bug and it better be
> addressed asap

I presume you have 0.9.6, right?

Julian committed some in 0.9.7 which as 0.9.7.1 hopefully finds it way into
wheezy in ~3 days. I haven't tested it myself, but I guess this new[]/realloc
mismatch was the issue here. It would be great if you could test and/or
confirm this of course.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies