Package: apt Version: 0.7.25.3 Severity: normal According to Policy 5.6.12 the absence of a debian revision should be considered equivalent to the presence of a debian revision of 0 (this was clarified somewhere in 2008).
dpkg apparently works this way but apt does not: $ python Python 2.5.5 (r255:77872, Feb 2 2010, 00:25:36) [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import apt_pkg >>> apt_pkg.init() >>> apt_pkg.VersionCompare("1.0", "1.0-0") -1 >>> (python-apt's VersionCompare is just a python wrapper around apt's actual implementation) -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2009.01.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii libc6 2.11-0exp6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.5-20100227-1 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.5-20100227-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> (no description available) ii aptitude 0.6.1.5-2 terminal-based package manager (te ii bzip2 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg-dev 1.15.5.6 Debian package development tools ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in ii python-apt 0.7.94 Python interface to libapt-pkg ii synaptic 0.63.1 Graphical package manager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org