On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 07:15:12PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > When checking whether the source package "0xffff" is bd-satisfiable, > dose-builddebcheck says "package: 0xffff". Contemporary yaml readers > (such as pyyaml) read that as 65535. The correct way would have been > "package: '0xffff'". Essential quoting is missing.
Also version "0.6e-7" is occasionally turned into "6.0e-08" and version "1.7" is occasionally turned into "1.70" after passing it through dose-builddebcheck and reading it back via pyyaml. Helmut

