Re: Is this an apt bug?

[Mitch Blevins <mblevin@debian.org>]

Adam Heath wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote:
> 
> > I tried to install the python-gnome package from the staging area,
> > and apt choked because of the dependency:
> > 
> > Depends: python-gtk (>= 0.5.12-1.1 )
> > 
> > Notice the extra space before the closing parenthesis.  I can download
> > this file manually and install it just fine.  So, is this an apt bug
> > or a python-gtk bug?
> 
> Considering you can use dpkg to install it, it makes it difficult to decide
> which is the problem.  It could be that this isn't allowed, but dpkg is
> buggy(ha, yeah, right) and allows it anyways.  In that case, I would almost
> think apt should have its parser relaxed to allow for this.

Well, I was hoping to take the easy way out and someone could say
for sure where the bug lay, rather than actually having to look
in the appropriate reference.  Here is the relevant part of the Debian
Packaging Manual (section 8.1):

  Whitespace may appear at any point in the version specification,
  and must appear where it's necessary to disambiguate; it is not
  otherwise significant.

So, this is an apt bug.  I'll file the bug report.

-Mitch