Bug#165825: apt: wants to upgrade dictionaries-common to same version

["Aaron M. Ucko" <ucko@debian.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal

apt-get upgrade always wants to upgrade dictionaries-common from 0.8.1
to 0.8.1 (not a typo) for no apparent reason.  Here's what I get from
running apt-cache policy with it versus an unaffected package:

$ apt-cache policy dictionaries-common apt
dictionaries-common:
  Installed: 0.8.1
  Candidate: 0.8.1
  Version Table:
     0.8.1 0
        500 http://localhost unstable/main Packages
 *** 0.8.1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
apt:
  Installed: 0.5.4
  Candidate: 0.5.4
  Version Table:
 *** 0.5.4 0
        500 http://localhost unstable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

(FWIW, http://localhost corresponds to my apt-proxy, and running
apt-cache gencaches makes no difference.  Neither does moving aside
the preferences file I hacked up to give X Strike Force packages a low
priority.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux tux 2.4.19 #1 Sun Sep 29 19:11:39 EDT 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=3Den_US, LC_CTYPE=3Den_US

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.1-3     GNU C Library: Shared librarie=
s an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2       1:2.95.4-12 The GNU stdc++ library

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