Package: apt Version: 0.5.5.1 Severity: important Hi,
[144]/root# LC_ALL=C apt-get -uV install vgabios Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be upgraded vgabios (0.3a+20030324-1 => 0.3a-1) 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. So apt-get consideres switching from 0.3a+20030324-1 to 0.3a-1 as an UPGRADE, although for dpkg it would be a DOWNGRADE [135]/home/robert> dpkg --compare-versions 0.3a-1 gt 0.3a+20030324-1 && \ > echo " 0.3a-1 > 0.3a+20030324-1 " || \ > echo " 0.3a-1 < 0.3a+20030324-1 " 0.3a-1 < 0.3a+20030324-1 And no, I don't set any apt pinning preferences, but my available packages comes from two sources: - a woody CDs (unfortunatelly labeled as "unstable" in Release files) - current sid mirror Regards Robert -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux vox 2.4.20 #2 czw cze 26 23:49:57 CEST 2003 i586 Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.1-17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.3.1-0pre0 GCC support library ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.1-0pre0 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 -- no debconf information
