Comment 3 for bug 903178

The fault was introduced somewhere in bzr106805 to 106808.

The most suspicious one is "

106807 [merge]
committer: Ramana Radhakrishnan <email address hidden>
branch nick: 4.6
timestamp: Mon 2011-09-12 15:14:00 +0100
message:
  backport conditional compares changes.
"""

Ramana, could you have a look at it?