Hello Jason, I think you are mistaken in the way version numbers are compared in Debian.
Version 7.5.3 is really considered newer than 7.5.3~deb10u1 (beware, it is a tilde, not a dash): # ge = "greater or equal" $ dpkg --compare-versions 7.5.3 ge "7.5.3~deb10u1"; echo $? 0 # means "true" Indeed, according to the Debian Policy [1]: The lexical comparison is a comparison of ASCII values modified so that all the letters sort earlier than all the non-letters and so that a tilde sorts before anything, even the end of a part. For example, the following parts are in sorted order from earliest to latest: ‘~~’, ‘~~a’, ‘~’, the empty part, ‘a’. Therefore I guess this bugreport can be closed as invalid, but I prefer to let others decide. [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#version Thanks! Best regards -- Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY PGP 015AE9B25DCB0511D200A75DE5674DEA514C891D
