[Bug 900566] Re: "apt-get upgrade" updates/reinstalls package with same version over and over again

[TheGhost]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 873435 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/873435

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 873435
   packaging error - recursive update

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Title:
  "apt-get upgrade" updates/reinstalls package with same version over
  and over again

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  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

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