Bug#87747: marked as done (apt: fails to compare versions correctly)
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From: Sam TH <sam@samth.dyndns.org>
Subject: apt: fails to compare versions correctly
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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.0
Severity: grave
The upgrade to APT 0.5 totally broke dependency calculation. apt-get
upgrade gives the following (totally erroneous) error:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
apache-common: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.1) but 2.2.2-1 is to be installed
binstats: Depends: debianutils (>= 1.13.1) but 1.15 is to be installed
wvdial: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.94) but 2.2.2-1 is to be installed
Note that the package versions required are all less than those
installed. dpkg --compare-versions correctly compares these versions
correctly, as in this output:
[sam@samth ~]$ dpkg --compare-versions 2.2.1 "<=" 2.2.2-1 && echo 1
1
Installation of debs manually with dpkg also works properly, with none
of these complaints. It is merely apt that has difficulty.
It seems, although I'm very much not sure about this, that the bug
relates to comparing versions where the lesser one has more components
than the greater (2.2.1-1 vs 2.2.2, etc).
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux samth.dyndns.org 2.4.1-pre9 #3 Sat Jan 20 17:59:11 CST 2001 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.2-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-14 The GNU stdc++ library
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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 21:23:17 -0700 (MST)
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>
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To: Sam TH <sam@uchicago.edu>
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Subject: Re: Bug#87747: apt: fails to compare versions correctly
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Sam TH wrote:
> However, removing /var/cache/apt/* and /var/state/apt/* was not
> enought to fix it. So either the config files were breaking this (I
> just had apt.conf and sources.list) or the apt installation was bad.
> I'm not sure.
I would have liked to have seen your configuration file..
But in any event, it appears to be an odd side effect of mis
configuration, however that is possible.
I'm sure someone else will discover it if there is indeed a real issue
here.
Jason
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