Re: libqwt-dev: apt reinstalls the package

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

#clone 631816 -1
#reassign -1 libqwt-dev 6.0.0-1
## policy §7.1 "Syntax of relationship fields"
#severity -1 important
severity 633943 important
found 633943 qwt/6.0.0-1
#merge -1 633943
quit

David Kalnischkies wrote:

> APT detects installed vs. the online version as different versions
> because of different dependencies.
>
> If we have a close look, we can see that:
> Online is:
> Replaces: libqwt5-qt4-dev (<< 6.0.0-)
> After installation we have in dpkg/status:
> Replaces: libqwt5-qt4-dev (<< 6.0.0)

From policy §7.1:

	parentheses should contain a relation from the list below
	followed by a version number, in the format described in
	Version, Section 5.6.12.

"6.0.0-" is not a valid version number.

I'm not sure what dpkg and apt should do here, though.