Thanks for helping with the testing. What version of avrdude are you using? This bug was probably fixed in the last update to avrdude, which has not migrated to testing yet (5.10-3). It was fixed a few days ago, so it's possible you have the unpatched avrdude.
See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=587280 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org