tag 579758 + pending confirmed thanks Hi Goswin
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 04:54:28PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Package: libconfigreader-simple-perl > Version: 1.28-2 > Severity: minor > > Hi, > > Package: libconfigreader-simple-perl > Architecture: all > Version: 1.28-2 > Conflicts: squidtaild (<< 0:2.1a6-5.4) > Depends: perl > Replaces: squidtaild (<< 0:2.1a6-5.4) > > You explicitly specified a zero epoch for the version of squidtaild. > Dpkg automatically surpresses a 0 epoch as that is already implied if > no epoch is given and saves dpkg from keeping an extra flag for its > presence. > > Apt on the other hand uses the raw strings of the fields in a hash > function which is then used to check if the available and installed > package are the same. With dpkg dropping the zero epoch apt gets > confused and considers the installed and available > libconfigreader-simple-perl 1.28-2 to be different packages and wants > to update it again and again. See Bug#574956. > > While we wait for the apt authors to device a fix for this please > consider uploading a new package without needlessly specifying the > zero epoch to avoid the problem. Yes, Gregor Hermann aleady fixed that in Debian Perl Group svn repository, the upload is pending. I'm tag'ing this as pending. Bests Salvatore
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