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[Jean-Baptiste Lallement <jean-baptiste.lallement@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/08/2014 06:18 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote:
> Jean-Baptiste Lallement:
> > or alternatively rmadison (from devscripts):
> > ⟫ rmadison sdformat
> >   sdformat | 1.4.11-1 | trusty/universe          | source
> >   sdformat | 2.0.0-4  | utopic/universe          | source
> >   sdformat | 2.0.0-5  | utopic-proposed/universe | source
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> Please check if the following is true:
>
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/One%20Hundred%20Papercuts/Work-flow/Triage/Fixable/rmadison>
It's almost true. In point 3, this part is not true "If the installed 
package has been provided by a third party, it will usually have a 
higher version than the one told by rmadison."

Nothing forbids to have an installed version from a third party 
repository with a lower version than a package from an official 
repository. A more reliable way to determine the origin of a package is 
to use "apt-cache policy" like for example:

⟫ apt-cache policy firefox-lp-improvements
firefox-lp-improvements:
  Installed: 0.99.93-0ubuntu1~ppa1
  Candidate: 0.99.93-0ubuntu1~ppa1
  Version table:
 *** 0.99.93-0ubuntu1~ppa1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gm-dev-launchpad/ppa/ubuntu/ 
raring/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


For reference, there are also online versions of madison:
https://qa.debian.org/madison.php
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/madison.cgi

JB.

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