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Bug#1133364: apt should ignore 0 epoch when downloading or installing with a version specifier

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From	Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke@debian.org>
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Subject	Bug#1133364: apt should ignore 0 epoch when downloading or installing with a version specifier
Date	Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:10:01 +0200
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Package: apt
Version: 3.2.0
Severity: normal

Hi,

According to Debian policy 5.6.12. a zero epoch "may be omitted, in
which case zero is assumed." [0]. Currently this does not work:

$ apt download woff-tools=2009.10.04-2+1.3.1-2
Error: Version '2009.10.04-2+1.3.1-2' for 'woff-tools' was not found

# apt install woff-tools=2009.10.04-2+1.3.1-2
Error: Version '2009.10.04-2+1.3.1-2' for 'woff-tools' was not found

$ apt download woff-tools=0:2009.10.04-2+1.3.1-2
Get:1 https://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 woff-tools all 0:2009.10.04-2+1.3.1-2 [3.024 B]

Can you please add support for this? This would fix the code in
debrebuild and allow to reproduce more packages on reproduce.d.n

Thanks!

Jochen


[0] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#version

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