I'd bet this bug affects LiveCD installs only. I installed from a 9.04 alpha6 LiveCD and suffered from random crashes caused by buffers overflows that could only be attributed to this spamming. After reading this bug I decided to reinstall module-init-tools and lo-and-behold! dpkg asks me to replace damaged configuration files. I allowed dpkg to replace all files with original ones and instead of a bunch of empty files I have now a decent set of blacklisted modules including evbug in blacklist.conf, which was very much empty before.
I'd bet this bug affects LiveCD installs only. I installed from a 9.04 alpha6 LiveCD and suffered from random crashes caused by buffers overflows that could only be attributed to this spamming. After reading this bug I decided to reinstall module-init-tools and lo-and-behold! dpkg asks me to replace damaged configuration files. I allowed dpkg to replace all files with original ones and instead of a bunch of empty files I have now a decent set of blacklisted modules including evbug in blacklist.conf, which was very much empty before.