Bug#164857: apt: not upgrading allthough version number is bigger

[Tomas Pospisek <tpo_deb@sourcepole.ch>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal

Hello Jason (et al.),

tpo2:~# dpkg -s dummypkg
Package: dummypkg
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Installed-Size: 16
Maintainer: Tomas Pospisek <tpo_deb@sourcepole.ch>
Source: dummypkg (1.3-20)
Version: 020902154609
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13)
Description: dummy package for testing purposes
 This is a dummy package that serves for testing of the apt-https method.

tpo2:~# apt-show-versions dummypkg
dummypkg 020902154609 installed: No available version in archive

tpo2:~# apt-cache showpkg dummypkg
Package: dummypkg
Versions:
021014132411(/var/lib/apt/lists/sourcepole.ch_sources_software_debian_._Packages)(/var/lib/dpkg/status)

Reverse Depends:
Dependencies:
021014132411 - libc6 (2 2.2.5-13)
Provides:
021014132411 -
Reverse Provides:

tpo2:~# apt-get update dummypkg
E: The update command takes no arguments
tpo2:~# apt-get install dummypkg
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, dummypkg is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 272  not upgraded.

So allthough there's a newer version of the package, apt refuses to
update it.

If you want to test it, dummypkg is in both versions available at:

http://sourcepole.ch/sources/software/debian/dummypkg_020902154609_i386.deb
http://sourcepole.ch/sources/software/debian/dummypkg_021014132411_i386.deb

Btw. any news on the - erm - upcoming apt release?
*t

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux tpo2 2.4.18 #5 Thu Oct 3 16:59:22 CEST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.2.5-14.3  GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2       1:2.95.4-11 The GNU stdc++ library