With v5.0+ds-3build1 autopkgtests crash with a buffer overflow

[Pushkar Kulkarni]

This package is stuck in -proposed for the last 191 days.

The aevol autopkgtests crash with a buffer overflow error [1].

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143s The run is finished.
143s Printing the final best individual into best_last_org.txt
143s Loading experimental setup... OK
143s Loading world... OK
144s Loading output profile...*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated
144s Aborted (core dumped)
145s autopkgtest [10:25:13]: test run-unit-tests: -----------------------]
145s run-unit-tests FAIL non-zero exit status 134
145s autopkgtest [10:25:13]: test run-unit-tests: - - - - - - - - - - results - - - - - - - - - -
145s autopkgtest [10:25:13]: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ summary
145s run-unit-tests FAIL non-zero exit status 134

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A rather simpler series of steps to repro this issue:

1. Build and install aevol v5.0+ds-3
2. cp /usr/share/doc/aevol/examples/* -a .
3. gunzip -r *
4. cd workflow/wild_type
5. aevol_create
6. aevol_run -n 100 -p -1
7. aevol_propagate -o ../line1 <--- this step must crash

Note: Upstream aevol is at version 9. The Debian package seems to not have been updated for the last three years (still pointing to version 5).