I can confirm this bug exists, and that Brendan's patch fixes it for the sparc platform at least.
Package: traceroute Version: 1.4a12-19 -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: sparc (sparc64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-sparc64 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages traceroute depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an traceroute recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]