Looking through the old archives, I found another similar bug report, #133668, which was also closed without actually fixing the bug.
People, this is simple: grep gethostbyaddr sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c && echo STILL BUGGY DAMMIT -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org