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

[Reinhard Tartler]

Enrico Zini <enrico at enricozini.org> writes:

> 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.

At UDS-Boston, I talked to mvo about python-debian. He seemed to be
rather unaware of python-debian, and wanted to have a look at it to see
if parts of python-debian could be merged into python-apt, IIRC.

Michael, did you have the chance to have a look at python-debian?

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