Bug#591885: dctrl-tools: Doesn't work with latest dpkg

[Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>]

reassign 591885 dpkg
retitle dpkg: Should print a warning instead of a fatal error.
thanks

Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> writes:

> On Fr, 2010-08-06 at 12:24 +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
>> Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> writes:
>> 
>> > On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 09:12:27AM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> > Not a bug, just an invalid file which is the result of using an
>> > inoffical repository (virtualbox.org) which contains invalid
>> > version numbers (and dpkg now rejects invalid version numbers).
>> 
>> Then why this bug has been fixed in uscan and isn't posssible to fix
>> that in apt ?
>
> Because uscan had a bug (it quoted version numbers), and APT has no bug;
> it only outputs the records found in the repositories (and the
> virtualbox.org version numbers are invalid).
>
> You might want to reopen the bug and reassign it to dpkg and ask them to
> only print a warning (and continue) instead of an error (and aborting).

Certainly a good idea.

dpkg people could you do that ? The current dpkg version break
sync-available from the dctrl-tools package.

Christian