Bug#2059: dpkg and depend on versions

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Erick Branderhorst writes ("Bug#2059: dpkg and depend on versions"):
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.0.8
>
> I installed the man package (2.3.10-6) succesfully. After that I tried
> to upgrade the libgdbm1 package (1.7.3-8). During installation of
> libgdbm1 dpkg reports about libgdbm1 conflicting with man (<2.3.10-6)
> and that man (version 2.3.10-5) is installed.

Are you absolutely sure that this is what it is doing ?  Was the thing
below an actual session transcript ?  I find it hard to imagine where
it got the `5' from ...

Note that < means less-than-or-equal-to in this context.

Ian.