apt-get considers 5.5.33a downgrade from 5.5.33

elenst@wheezy-64:~$ sudo apt-get install mariadb-server

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

mariadb-server is already the newest version.

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 422 not upgraded.

elenst@wheezy-64:~$ sudo apt-get install mariadb-server-5.5

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

mariadb-server-5.5 is already the newest version.

mariadb-server-5.5 set to manually installed.

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 422 not upgraded.

elenst@wheezy-64:~$ sudo apt-get install mariadb-server-5.5=5.5.33a+maria-1~wheezy

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

Suggested packages:

  tinyca mariadb-test

The following packages will be REMOVED:

  mariadb-server

The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:

  mariadb-server-5.5

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 downgraded, 1 to remove and 422 not upgraded.

Need to get 18.7 MB of archives.

After this operation, 27.6 kB disk space will be freed.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 

elenst@wheezy-64:~$ dpkg -l | grep -E "(maria|mysql)"

ii  libdbd-mysql-perl                     4.021-1+b1                         amd64        Perl5 database interface to the MySQL database

ii  libmariadbclient18                    5.5.33+maria-1~wheezy              amd64        MariaDB database client library

ii  libmysqlclient18                      5.5.33+maria-1~wheezy              amd64        Virtual package to satisfy external depends

ii  mariadb-client-5.5                    5.5.33+maria-1~wheezy              amd64        MariaDB database client binaries

ii  mariadb-client-core-5.5               5.5.33+maria-1~wheezy              amd64        MariaDB database core client binaries

ii  mariadb-common                        5.5.33+maria-1~wheezy              all          MariaDB database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql/conf.d/mariadb.cnf)

ii  mariadb-server                        5.5.33+maria-1~wheezy              all          MariaDB database server (metapackage depending on the latest version)

ii  mariadb-server-5.5                    5.5.33+maria-1~wheezy              amd64        MariaDB database server binaries

ii  mariadb-server-core-5.5               5.5.33+maria-1~wheezy              amd64        MariaDB database core server files

ii  mysql-common                          5.5.28+dfsg-1                      all          MySQL database common files, e.g. /etc/mysql/my.cnf

elenst@wheezy-64:~$ apt-cache show mariadb-server

Package: mariadb-server

Status: install ok installed

Priority: optional

Section: database

Installed-Size: 27

Maintainer: MariaDB Developers <maria-developers@lists.launchpad.net>

Architecture: all

Source: mariadb-5.5

Version: 5.5.33+maria-1~wheezy

Depends: mariadb-server-5.5 (= 5.5.33+maria-1~wheezy)

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Package: mariadb-server

Source: mariadb-5.5

Version: 5.5.33a+maria-1~wheezy

Architecture: all

Maintainer: MariaDB Developers <maria-developers@lists.launchpad.net>

Installed-Size: 27

Depends: mariadb-server-5.5 (= 5.5.33a+maria-1~wheezy)

Homepage: http://mariadb.org/

Priority: optional

Section: database

Filename: pool/main/m/mariadb-5.5/mariadb-server_5.5.33a+maria-1~wheezy_all.deb

Size: 2966

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elenst@wheezy-64:~$ apt-cache show mariadb-server-5.5

Package: mariadb-server-5.5

Status: install ok installed

Priority: optional

Section: misc

Installed-Size: 64186

Maintainer: MariaDB Developers <maria-developers@lists.launchpad.net>

Architecture: amd64

Source: mariadb-5.5

Version: 5.5.33+maria-1~wheezy

Replaces: libmariadbclient-dev (<< 5.5.0), libmariadbclient16 (<< 5.3.4), mariadb-server (<< 5.5.33+maria-1~wheezy), mariadb-server-5.1, mariadb-server-5.2, mariadb-server-5.3, mysql-server (<< 5.5.33+maria-1~wheezy), mysql-server-4.1, mysql-server-5.0, mysql-server-5.1, mysql-server-5.5

Provides: mariadb-server, mysql-server, virtual-mysql-server

Depends: mariadb-client-5.5 (>= 5.5.33+maria-1~wheezy), libdbi-perl, perl (>= 5.6), libaio1 (>= 0.3.93), libc6 (>= 2.7), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.6), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, psmisc, passwd, lsb-base (>= 3.0-10), mariadb-server-core-5.5 (>= 5.5.33+maria-1~wheezy)

Pre-Depends: mariadb-common, adduser (>= 3.40), debconf

Recommends: libhtml-template-perl

Suggests: tinyca, mailx, mariadb-test

Conflicts: mariadb-server (<< 5.5.33+maria-1~wheezy), mariadb-server-5.1, mariadb-server-5.2, mariadb-server-5.3, mysql-server (<< 5.5.33+maria-1~wheezy), mysql-server-4.1, mysql-server-5.0, mysql-server-5.1, mysql-server-5.5

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Package: mariadb-server-5.5

Source: mariadb-5.5

Version: 5.5.33a+maria-1~wheezy

Architecture: amd64

Maintainer: MariaDB Developers <maria-developers@lists.launchpad.net>

Installed-Size: 64186

Pre-Depends: mariadb-common, adduser (>= 3.40), debconf

Depends: mariadb-client-5.5 (>= 5.5.33a+maria-1~wheezy), libdbi-perl, perl (>= 5.6), libaio1 (>= 0.3.93), libc6 (>= 2.7), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.6), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, psmisc, passwd, lsb-base (>= 3.0-10), mariadb-server-core-5.5 (>= 5.5.33a+maria-1~wheezy)

Recommends: libhtml-template-perl

Suggests: tinyca, mailx, mariadb-test

Conflicts: mariadb-server (<< 5.5.33a+maria-1~wheezy), mariadb-server-5.1, mariadb-server-5.2, mariadb-server-5.3, mysql-server (<< 5.5.33a+maria-1~wheezy), mysql-server-4.1, mysql-server-5.0, mysql-server-5.1, mysql-server-5.5

Replaces: libmariadbclient-dev (<< 5.5.0), libmariadbclient16 (<< 5.3.4), mariadb-server (<< 5.5.33a+maria-1~wheezy), mariadb-server-5.1, mariadb-server-5.2, mariadb-server-5.3, mysql-server (<< 5.5.33a+maria-1~wheezy), mysql-server-4.1, mysql-server-5.0, mysql-server-5.1, mysql-server-5.5

Provides: mariadb-server, mysql-server, virtual-mysql-server

Homepage: http://mariadb.org/

Priority: optional

Section: misc

Filename: pool/main/m/mariadb-5.5/mariadb-server-5.5_5.5.33a+maria-1~wheezy_amd64.deb

Size: 18654952

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