[Aptitude-devel] Bug#346321: aptitude Bug #346321 install/upgrade to latest version only allowed

[Pat Parson]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.11-1
Followup-For: Bug #346321

Dear Maintainer,
 When selecting a package for installation from the Information About Package 
view screen aptitude will only allow the selection of the most recent version 
of the package listed. 

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (992, 'proposed-updates'), (991, 'stable-updates'), (550, 'testing'), (550, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.6.11-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            1.0.7
ii  libboost-iostreams1.55.0  1.55.0+dfsg-2
ii  libc6                     2.19-10
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.17-1
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.9.1-12
ii  libncursesw5              5.9+20140712-2
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.2.11-4
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.6-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.9.1-12
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9+20140712-2
ii  libxapian22               1.2.16-2~bpo70+1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
pn  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   <none>
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index  <none>
pn  debtags           <none>
pn  tasksel           <none>

-- no debconf information

-- debsums errors found:
sh: 1: /usr/sbin/dpkg-divert: not found