Bug#363358: apt: Treats an explicit zero epoch as newer than no epoch

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 07:58:37PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> Apt treats a version string with explicit zero epoch as newer than the
> same without epoch. This is contrary to policy 5.6.12.
> 
> Consequences: If a package in the archive has an explicit zero epoch,
>               apt always wants to upgrade it, although the version in
> 	      the archive is the same as the version locally
> 	      installed.
> 
> Here's a patch that corrects this.
[..]

Thanks for your patch. I applied it to my bzr tree and it will be part
of the next upload.

Cheers,
 Michael

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