Comment 7 for bug 428570

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Patrick Goetz (pgoetz) wrote :

> It's an unversioned dependency, so the old version satisfies the
> dependency just as well and therefore apt doesn't bother to upgrade it.
> (This may be an error in how the dependency is declared, but it's how it
> is right now.)

Can we call this a bug? It seems pointless to have a dummy package if it's not going to haul in the latest versions of the dependencies.