Bug#444930: apt-get build-dep reports "Installed package too new"

[dann frazier <dannf@hp.com>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.7.6
Severity: normal

$ apt-get build-dep imagemagick
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Failed to satisfy Build-Depends dependency for imagemagick: Installed package libpng12-dev is too new

One member of the Build-Depends field in imagemagick is:
 libpng12-dev (<= 1.2.8rel-7) | libpng12-dev (>= 1.2.15~beta5-0)

I happen go have 1.2.15~beta5-2 installed, which meets the second criteria.

Also note that dpkg-checkbuilddeps seems to do the right thing here.

-- Package-specific info:

-- apt-config dump --

APT "";
APT::Architecture "ia64";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "0";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
APT::Periodic "";
APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "0";
APT::Acquire "";
APT::Acquire::Translation "environment";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
Acquire "";
Acquire::Pdiffs "false";
Acquire::http "";
Acquire::http::Proxy [OMITTED]
Acquire::http::Proxy::[OMITTED] "DIRECT"
Acquire::ftp "";
Acquire::ftp::Proxy [OMITTED]
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Tools "";
DPkg::Tools::Options "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2";
DPkg::Post-Invoke "";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "which dzhandle >/dev/null && dzhandle restart-pending-instances || true";
Unattended-Upgrade "";
Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins "";
Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins:: "Debian stable";

-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --


-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: ia64

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-mckinley (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring        2007.07.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii  libc6.1                       2.6.1-5    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.2.1-5  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.2.1-5    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libunwind7                    0.98.5-8   A library to determine the call-ch

apt recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information