No. It shouldn't. Unfortunately, PEP-440 describes a versioning scheme
that is incompatible with the versioning long used in Debian and it's
derivatives such as Ubuntu. As the PEP says, "The main reason to even
have a standardised version scheme in the first place is to make it
easier to do reliable automated dependency analysis." We already have
another system to do that and python-apt is conforming to it.
If one were to conform to PEP 440, then the package would be
incompatible with distro versioning requirements.
Note: This is not general issue for Python packages. It is only a
conflict for Debian/Ubuntu native packages like python-apt.
** Changed in: python-apt (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1445949
Title:
Version does not conform to PEP440
Status in python-apt package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
When looking for available python modules, pkg_resources issues the
following warning:
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py:2512:
PEP440Warning: 'python-apt (0.9.3.11build1)' is being parsed as a
legacy, non PEP 440, version. You may find odd behavior and sort
order. In particular it will be sorted as less than 0.0. It is
recommend to migrate to PEP 440 compatible versions.
The package version should be conforming.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: python-apt 0.9.3.11build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-46.79-lowlatency 3.13.11-ckt15
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-46-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sun Apr 19 18:00:31 2015
SourcePackage: python-apt
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2012-03-12 (1133 days ago)
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