Thanks Fyodor. As I noted in my original report, the bug is indeed fixed in 6.01 and beyond, and things are working fine for me after upgrading. I just wanted to make sure the Debian folks were aware of it so that hopefully the fix will make it into wheezy or a point release thereof.
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