Thanks for your very valid comments. Libsafe is probably obsolete. It doesn't work the way it was designed, because of some not-very-recent changes to glibc, and libsafe is no longer maintained upstream.
See the other serious bugs against libsafe (http://bugs.debian.org/libsafe) for more details. It will probably never get into Debian testing or stable. One of these days, I may remove it entirely. By the way, if you're playing with unstable, you should probably install apt-listbugs (to find out about serious bugs before you install/upgrade packages), and install (and use) dpkg-repack (to be able to recover from bugs and other surprises in upgraded packages). Good luck, and thanks for the report. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]