Package: dpkg
Version: 1.16.1.2
Severity: normal
As reported downstream in launchpad, dpkg-mergechangelogs fails trying to merge
the gcc debian changelog:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr-builddeb/+bug/893495>
Reproduce with the attatchments on that bug, and:
$ dpkg-mergechangelogs changelog.BASE changelog.OTHER changelog.THIS
This is caused by this block appearing, which as an invalid version:
egcs (ss-970814-1) experimental; urgency=low
* Initial packaging (of initial snapshot!)
-- Galen Hazelwood <[email protected]> Wed, 20 Aug 1997 00:36:28 +0000
This particular issue was introduced in dpkg 1.16.0.1 - specifically the
changeset:
0cacb0c3a1d1f837c957f3917a040ace6d60f9e7
Dpkg::Version: update version_check to forbid versions starting with non
digits
So, the change was deliberate, but the effect on dpkg-mergechangelogs seems
unintended.
Note that this bug is not present on my system with dpkg 1.15.8.12 so in some
senses
it's a regression, though invalid versions were not explicitly handled then
either.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500,
'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii coreutils 8.5-1 GNU core utilities
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii xz-utils 5.0.0-2 XZ-format compression utilities
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
dpkg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii apt 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
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