Bug#202410: apt: Tries to downgrade vgabios from version 0.3a+20030324-1 to 0.3a-1
severity 202410 normal
close 202410
merge 202410 194327
thanks
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:32:23PM +0200, Robert Luberda wrote:
> [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
This is a duplicate of #194327, which was fixed in apt 0.5.6.
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- mdz
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