[Dapper] [bug] fr_FR locale dependant segfault BUG of dd

Can you plase tell me if it behave the same on you latest Dapper?
Where should I report this if it is realy a bug?


Bug candidate:
Package: language-pack-fr-base
Versions:
1:6.06+20060427(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.free.fr_mirrors2_ftp.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/dpkg/status)

Reverse Depends:
language-pack-kde-fr-base,language-pack-fr-base 1:6.06+20060427
language-pack-kde-fr,language-pack-fr-base 1:6.06+20060427
language-pack-gnome-fr-base,language-pack-fr-base 1:6.06+20060427
language-pack-gnome-fr,language-pack-fr-base 1:6.06+20060427
language-pack-fr-base,language-pack-fr-base 1:6.06+20060427
language-pack-fr,language-pack-fr-base 1:6.06+20060427
language-pack-fr,language-pack-fr-base
language-pack-fr,language-pack-fr-base
Dependencies:
1:6.06+20060427 - locales (2 2.3.6) language-pack-fr (2 1:6.06+20060427)
dpkg (2 1.10.27ubuntu1) language-support-fr (0 (null)) language-pack-fr
(3 1:6.06+20060427) language-pack-fr (3 1:6.06+20060427)
language-pack-fr-base (3 1:6.06+20060427) language-pack-fr (3
1:6.06+20060427)
Provides:
1:6.06+20060427 -
Reverse Provides:


Reproducing the bug:

lea@coincoin:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=16k count=1000
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
Erreur de segmentation
(aka: segfault)

lea@coincoin:~$ export LANG=en
lea@coincoin:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=16k count=1000
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
16384000 bytes (16 MB) copied, 0.046938 seconds, 349 MB/s

Candidate source of bug:
flawed translation of string "%n bytes (%n) copied, %f seconds, %n MB/s"

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