Before signing off for sleep this morning I investigated how to install the new packages on a system that fails apt-get. It seems the best solution is a pair of {pre,post}.inst script stanzas keyed to the broken version only, which stop and start the services that cause the SIGSEGV whilst the package upgrade is in progress.
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