libqwt-dev should use "6.0.0" instead of "6.0.0-" in Replaces field

[Dennis Schridde]

Everytime I run "apt-get upgrade" it wants to reinstall the same version of libqwt-dev. Also is visible in package manager GUI that is installed by Kubuntu (Muon? - the grey/green gear icon in the systray that sometimes appears).

$ sudo apt-get clean
$ echo $?
0
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libqwt-dev
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 99,8 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Get:1 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main libqwt-dev i386 6.0.0-1ubuntu1 [99,8 kB]
Fetched 99,8 kB in 0s (533 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 241346 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libqwt-dev 6.0.0-1ubuntu1 (using .../libqwt-dev_6.0.0-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libqwt-dev ...
Setting up libqwt-dev (6.0.0-1ubuntu1) ...
$ echo $?
0
$ apt-cache policy libqwt-dev
libqwt-dev:
  Installed: 6.0.0-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 6.0.0-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
     6.0.0-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages
 *** 6.0.0-1ubuntu1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: apt 0.8.16~exp5ubuntu13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Dec 6 03:02:19 2011
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=C
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: apt
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-25 (71 days ago)
mtime.conffile..etc.cron.daily.apt: 2011-11-04T13:14:16.189156

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Raphaël Hertzog (hertzog)]

The problem is that "Replaces: libqwt5-qt4-dev (<< 6.0.0-)" is rewritten into "Replaces: libqwt5-qt4-dev (<< 6.0.0)" by dpkg in the status file and apt detects the difference... and thinks the package has changed.

Please drop that useless dash in the version.

[Raphaël Hertzog (hertzog)]

#873435 is the corresponding bug for dpkg.

[Dennis Schridde (devurandom)]

Could someone please fix this? It has been almost 3 months now...