Bug#46717: apt: apt-get | apt-cache fail to merge lists

[Erik Bernhardson <journey@jps.net>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.13
Severity: normal


If a package has a line like

Provides: foo (=1.2.3)

in its control, apt fails to merge the lists.  dpkg and the dh_* scripts dont
complain about this, infact the dh_* scripts complain if its just (1.2.3) saying
that the reference to foo has an 'implicit exact match on version number.'

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux journey 2.2.12 #13 Wed Sep 15 16:57:07 PDT 1999 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6           2.1.2-5        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii  libstdc++2.10   2.95.2-0pre2   The GNU stdc++ library