Comment 2 for bug 815895

The latest incarnation of this in debian is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632271
(your referred bugreport is just a report to change the message, which was done).

This bug is hopefully finally fixed in the version currently sitting in debian experimental. It would be splendid if you could try this version in a vm/chroot or alike and report back as it is untested so far (there are not many users around which have packages >2 GB or even >4 GB handy… and i am not one of those)