Bug#752519: Wrong greater than comparings

[Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de>]

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Package: apt
Version: 1.0.5
Severity: important

I had the following on a other node that I don't want to send mails at
all. So I purged the package informations below and will give the
versions by hand.

Affected apt version: 1.0.5 (amd64)

   > apt-get install libdbd-anydata-perl
   Reading package lists... Done
   Building dependency tree
   Reading state information... Done
   Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
   requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
   distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
   or been moved out of Incoming.
   The following information may help to resolve the situation:

   The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    libdbd-anydata-perl : Depends: libdbi-perl (>= 1.612) but it is not going to be installed
   E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
   > apt-cache policy libdbi-perl
   libdbi-perl:
     Installed: 1.631-3
     Candidate: 1.631-3
     Version table:
    *** 1.631-3 0
	   500 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
	   100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
   > dpkg --compare-versions 1.631-3 '>=' 1.612; echo $?
   0

So apt wrongly don't take 1.631-3 bigger than 1.612. That makes
libdbd-anydata-perl uninstallable so I would even see this bug as
serious (But I filled it as just as important).

And before you ask, no, libdbi-perl is not hold as it is suggested by
the error.

- -- Klaus

Ps. After writing this report, I tried it also on other nodes using sid
    and it is reproducable.
- -- 
Klaus Ethgen                              http://www.ethgen.ch/
pub  4096R/4E20AF1C 2011-05-16   Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de>
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