[MERGE] Sync debian_support.py with the latest code from secure-testing repo

[Enrico Zini]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 05:48:56PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:

> +  * Sync debian_support.py with the latest version from the secure-testing
> +    repository. Note that this removes support for version comparison without
> +    apt_pkg. (Our copy was modified in 0.1.2 to *accept* ~ in version strings,
> +    but comparison without apt_pkg was already broken by then.)

+1.  I cannot think of scenarios where python-debian is available and
python-apt is not.

Hopefully, version comparison without python-apt can be fished out of
libdpkg one day.


Ciao,

Enrico

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