colons (:) in package version numbers mucking up dselect?

[m* <mark@mail.novare.net>]

went to upgrade the packages on the trusty old 386 and after i got
the list of available packages dselect reported:

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dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 13565
package `cdda2wav':
 empty value for version

update available list script returned error exit status 1.

-

afterward, selecting Select crashes dselect. 

changing the : in the version numbers for packages cdda2wav and
sharutils to a . fixed it.

thank you and have a nice day/night,

m* 

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