Package: apt Version: 0.6.43.3 Severity: normal Usually, an epoch value is either absent, and so zero implicitly, or explicitly present and greater than zero. If a package version number includes an explicit epoch value of zero, apt-get misbehaves, considering the version present in the available download sources to be newer than the installed version, *despite* them being the exact same version!
This causes the affected package to be reinstalled every time an 'apt-get upgrade' or 'apt-get dist-upgrade' is performed. Whilst there isn't any particularly reason for a package to include a zero epoch value explicitly, apt should handle such a situation gracefully. This bug was discovered because mailman 0:2.1.7-2.1.8rc1-1 included an explicit zero epoch. Max. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
