dpkg (>= 1.15.5) fails on make check

[Yuri Vasilevski <yvasilev@gentoo.org>]

Hello,

At gentoo we are having problems with dpkg (>= 1.15.5) versions due to
the changes introduced in the pure perl version comparison code.

As far as I understand, the problem is that after the move to object
comparison, the perl package does not make public/available some helper
functions like version_compare nor it is able to use some other
functions internally. This Making `make check` fail.

For some more details please see:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293516

Kindest regards,
Yuri.

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