Bug#184730: apt: requested package abusively listed in "extra packages to be installed"

[Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: minor


strcmp() done on wrong string variable ?


Correct behaviour:

# apt-get install lire   
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libtime-modules-perl 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libtime-modules-perl lire 

Incorrect behaviour:

# apt-get install lire=1:1.1-1
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libtime-modules-perl lire 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libtime-modules-perl lire 


-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux vitel 2.4.20-station+usbdev #1 Thu Feb 20 16:32:00 CET 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.2.5-11.2        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-11woody1 The GNU stdc++ library

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