Comment 9 for bug 1350778

> On my system dpkg --compare-versions "" lt-nl "0.8" is false so it would seem the code is also not run on fresh installs

It does run on fresh installs. You're getting confused between a 0 return code, which means the command succeeded and the condition passes, and false. In most other languages, 0 would be false, but not in a bash script, where a 0 return code means it succeeded :)

Good point about dpkg-reconfigure. I'll work on a debdiff with the patches you listed.

Out of interest, how much work do you think it would be to upgrade the package to the latest 0.8 release? We have another couple of years left with precise as a supported release, and I'd like to keep this package as close to upstream as possible. Should the 0.8 branch apply pretty cleanly?