libungif3g-dev: post-installation script error

["Christopher S. Swingley" <cswingle@iarc.uaf.edu>]

I've been keeping up with potato fairly regularly (two or three times
a week), and occasionally I wind up with errors that look like this
(this is what I got today):

    dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script:
        Exec format error
    dpkg: error processing libungif3g-dev (--configure):
        subprocess post-installation script returned error exit
            status 2
    Errors were encountered while processing:
        libungif3g-dev

Sometimes I can get things to work by doing dpkg --purge, apt-get install, 
but in this case several things depend on the library.  Is there a
way around this, or should I file a bug report and wait for a repaired 
package?  Where do these installation / configuration scripts live --
perhaps I can fix it myself?

Thanks.

Chris
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