Comment 17 for bug 545336

Thanks for helping Fernando, I'd like to get maintainer's insight before doing anything. He knows the arcane of apt and what is the best solution.
The bug is triggered by the size of the spanish description of texlive-latex-extra, so a possible workaround would be to limit this translation to something around 35K characters. But it will fix only this translation and only for spanish and this bug may happen for other languages too and it's lot of work to adapt translations to work around that kind of thing.

About my previous comment:
it also hits people doing
$ LANG=es_ES.utf8 apt-cache show texlive-latex-extra

This is a wider audience than only synaptic users.