Bug#881983: nvidia-kernel-common: fails upon upgrade

[Héctor Orón Martínez]

Package: nvidia-kernel-common
Version: 20151021+4
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
   Upgrading Debian Sid system.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
     sudo apt upgrade

   * What was the outcome of this action?
     Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-kernel-common_20151021+5_amd64.deb ...
     dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: dpkg: warning: version '20051028\+1\+nmu2\~' has bad syntax: invalid character in version number
     dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-kernel-common_20151021+5_amd64.deb (--unpack):
      new nvidia-kernel-common package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
     dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: dpkg: warning: version '20051028\+1\+nmu2\~' has bad syntax: invalid character in version number
     dpkg: error while cleaning up:
      new nvidia-kernel-common package post-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1
     Errors were encountered while processing:
      /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-kernel-common_20151021+5_amd64.deb
     E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
     Sucessfully installed package

   dpkg 1.19.0.4 is installed in this system.

Regards

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=ca_AD:ca (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

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