Bug#202410: apt: Tries to downgrade vgabios from version 0.3a+20030324-1 to 0.3a-1

[Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.5.1
Severity: important

Hi, 


[144]/root# LC_ALL=C apt-get -uV install vgabios
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded
   vgabios (0.3a+20030324-1 => 0.3a-1)
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.


So apt-get consideres switching from 0.3a+20030324-1 to 0.3a-1 as an
UPGRADE, although for dpkg it would be a DOWNGRADE 

[135]/home/robert> dpkg --compare-versions 0.3a-1 gt 0.3a+20030324-1 && \
> echo " 0.3a-1 > 0.3a+20030324-1 " || \
> echo " 0.3a-1 < 0.3a+20030324-1 "
 0.3a-1 < 0.3a+20030324-1


And no, I don't set any apt pinning preferences, 
but my available packages comes from two sources: 
- a woody CDs (unfortunatelly labeled as "unstable" in Release files) 
- current sid mirror


Regards

Robert

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux vox 2.4.20 #2 czw cze 26 23:49:57 CEST 2003 i586
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                      2.3.1-17      GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                    1:3.3.1-0pre0 GCC support library
ii  libstdc++5                 1:3.3.1-0pre0 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

-- no debconf information