Bug#579758: Explicit zero epoch confuses apt

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

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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