Bug#273282: apt package needs to require minimum version of sed

[Jon K <jon@info-bulletin.com>]

Package:  apt
Version: 0.5.27
(apt 0.5.27 for linux i386 compiled on Jul 29 2004 22:59:33)

apt(sarge) seems to need a minimum version of sed(the sarge one?)

sed did not get upgraded when i upgraded apt to the sarge version
(using:  apt-get install apt)

i found it because apt failed to configure python2.3-mysqldb(sarge) until 
i upgraded sed

Other Info:
i have no pinning going on
i have both woody and sarge in my sources list
i refer to woody and sarge literally in sources.list (not stable and 
testing)

following is some shell output that shows the sed error, and how it went 
away after i upgraded sed.

olivia:~# apt-get install dpkg
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
dpkg is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 402 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up python2.3-mysqldb (1.0.0-1) ...
sed: -e expression #1, char 46: Unknown option to 's'
dpkg: error processing python2.3-mysqldb (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python-mysqldb:
 python-mysqldb depends on python2.3-mysqldb (= 1.0.0-1); however:
  Package python2.3-mysqldb is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing python-mysqldb (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 python2.3-mysqldb
 python-mysqldb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

olivia:~# apt-get install sed
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  sed
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 401 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 204kB of archives.
After unpacking 592kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org sarge/main sed 4.1.2-1 [204kB]
Fetched 204kB in 26s (7803B/s)                                            
                                   
(Reading database ... 67035 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace sed 3.02-8 (using .../archives/sed_4.1.2-1_i386.deb) 
...
Unpacking replacement sed ...
Setting up sed (4.1.2-1) ...

Setting up python2.3-mysqldb (1.0.0-1) ...

Setting up python-mysqldb (1.0.0-1) ...

olivia:~#


hope this helps
cheers
Jon K