Bug#709560: apt-get segfaults when installing linux-headers-3.8-2-amd64 on Wheezy

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 04:33:28PM -0500, Robert Edmonds wrote:
> hi,
Hi,
 
> i have a similar apt config (wheezy, with pinning for packages from
> unstable), and i get:
> 
> root@bst:~# apt-cache policy linux-tools-3.11
> linux-tools-3.11:
>   Installed: (none)
>   Candidate: (none)
>   Version table:
>      3.11-3 0
>         -10 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
> root@bst:~# apt-get install linux-tools-3.11/unstable
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> Selected version '3.11-3' (Debian:unstable [amd64]) for 'linux-tools-3.11'
> Segmentation fault
> root@bst:~# 
> 
> i rebuilt apt 0.9.7.9+deb7u1 with debugging symbols and i get the
> following valgrind output:
[..]

I have some idea what is triggering this, but I need some help to be sure.

Could you please provide the /etc/apt/sources.list and
/etc/apt/preferences file so that I can try to reproduce the issue? A
gdb backtrace would be great as well.

Thanks,
 Michael