Bug#620958:

2011-04-16 Thread D. Kelly
You can include me in the number of users who is now being spammed by all the warnings. I managed to get rid of quite a few of them with "dpkg --clear-avail" but I still get all the status ones. For example: dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 705 package 'linux-i

Bug#620699: dpkg-query: version string does not start with digit

2011-04-16 Thread David Madore
Or, more generally, if someone can explain how to revert to pre-1.16 behavior, I'd be very grateful, because I have dozens of locally compiled kernel packages installed on my system, causing every invocation of dpkg to spew hundreds of lines of useless warnings, making it nearly unusable (any valid

Bug#620699: dpkg-query: version string does not start with digit

2011-04-16 Thread David Madore
On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 10:32:14AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > What I've locally now is the following (might get slightly refined > before the push though): > > --compare-versions is lax by default now, will still warn though. > One of the reasons I ended up with the strict parser for > --compar