Convert package names from Packages files to lower case

dpkg does that when reading package files, so we should do
the same. This only deals with parsing names from binary
package paragraphs, it does not look at source package names
and/or the list of binaries in a dsc file.

Closes: #807012

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/apt-pkg/deb/deblistparser.cc b/apt-pkg/deb/deblistparser.cc
index 229cfc29b..bf9bc75ec 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/deb/deblistparser.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/deb/deblistparser.cc
@@ -57,7 +57,12 @@ debListParser::debListParser(FileFd *File) :
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 /* This is to return the name of the package this section describes */
 string debListParser::Package() {
-   string const Result = Section.FindS("Package");
+   string Result = Section.FindS("Package");
+
+   // Normalize mixed case package names to lower case, like dpkg does
+   // See Bug#807012 for details
+   std::transform(Result.begin(), Result.end(), Result.begin(), tolower_ascii);
+
    if(unlikely(Result.empty() == true))
       _error->Error("Encountered a section with no Package: header");
    return Result;