apt-get crashes when an empty string is fed as the package name

[LexLythius]

This is an error report for package apt (http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/apt), but i just can't select it from the package filter as it yields "too many matches" for that name.

If you do

apt-get install/remove/whatever ""

you get:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range'
  what(): basic_string::compare

and the program crashes instead of pointing out my stupidity.

This happens in Ubuntu 14.04 but I think it also affects other versions.

[dino99 (9d9)]

Fixed in xenial

apt (1.1~exp13) experimental; urgency=medium