On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:11:10PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: [cut]
OTOH, every Debian kernel installation, plus initrd regenerations, fill my screens with complaints like dpkg: warning: version 'cur' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit dpkg: warning: version 'prv' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit
I've had this issue in the past due to locally-created packages which don't follow the Debian Guidelines. I'm not saying this is your situation, but merely an anecdote - back when I used to play with kernel-pkg (for building debian packages from vanilla kernel sources), I'd give the resulting packages versions such as "venus.1", "athena.2" etc (that is, hostname plus a version). dpkg didn't like that. I found that the errors persisted even after removing the packages. The answer was that the memory of the packages persisted in /var/lib/dpkg/available. Removing the relevant stanzas from the file silenced the error. -- For more information, please reread.
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