[Pkg-php-pecl] Bug#848554: dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: dpkg: error: version '' has bad syntax: version string is empty

[Nils Schasse]

Package: php-xdebug
Version: 2.4.1-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
   apt upgrade
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   apt upgrade
   * What was the outcome of this action?
   New Install script returns: dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: dpkg:
   error: version '' has bad syntax: version string is empty

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
  Success

There is a similar bug in "dirmngr". This one is reported here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=848422

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages php-xdebug depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.24-8
iu  php-common                    1:47
iu  php7.0-cli [phpapi-20151012]  7.0.14-2
ii  ucf                           3.0036

php-xdebug recommends no packages.

php-xdebug suggests no packages.

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