On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 03:07:07PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Thank you for CCing me on this. thanks for replying so quickly…
> I tested LooseVersion with the version of apt in wheezy:
>
> iris ~ % python
> Python 2.7.13rc1 (default, Dec 4 2016, 14:12:39)
> [GCC 6.2.1 20161124] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> from distutils.version import LooseVersion
> >>> LooseVersion("0.9.7.9+deb7u7") >= LooseVersion("1.1")
> False
>
> So LooseVersion can handle the version number. Possibly dpkg-query is
> behaving differently on wheezy? Perhaps you could run that dpkg-query
> command on wheezy and see what you get.
$ dpkg-query -f "0.9.7.9+deb7u7\n" -W apt
0.9.7.9+deb7u7
$
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cheers,
Holger
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