Bug#21170: dpkg malfunction-unable to upgrade Debian
You wrote:
>Apparently, it doesn't like version numbers in "Packages" which contain a
>colon. It stops at cdda2wav, because the version number contains ":".
That's the "epoch" feature, used in cases where the upstream version
numbering scheme changed, to make set dpkg's idea of which versions are
newer than others straight.
>My old version of dpkg is 1.2.11 (i386 elf), I'm trying to install Debian
>1.3.1.
Your version of dpkg does not support epochs. You'll have to upgrade dpkg
with dpkg first (dpkg -i dpkg-from-1.3.1.deb) (if that doesn't work, do dpkg
--clear-avail, then dpkg -i dpkg-from-1.3.1.deb). After that upgrade, you
should be able to continue with dselect.
This information used to be in the upgrades/ directory on the FTP site, but
has apparently been removed.
HTH,
Ray
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