`get_packages` named the Debian source package and never its version, so a
consumer was handed two numbers on different axes and no way to tell.
OSV states Debian ranges in *source* versions. libldb2 is
2:2.11.0+samba4.22.11+dfsg-… while its source, samba, is 2:4.22.11+dfsg-…;
comparing the first against a samba range is meaningless, and dpkg reads
ldb's 2.11.0 as older than the 2:4.17.4+dfsg-1 that fixed CVE-2022-44640.
Reporting the source without its version is worse than reporting neither,
because it looks usable.
Measured on three live Proxmox nodes: every one of their 2 349 packages
was in that state — 802 of 802, 774 of 774, 773 of 773 — while twenty
non-Proxmox hosts had both fields. It was not a parsing bug. The
dpkg-query format string never asked for ${source:Version}, so nothing
downstream could have recovered it.
Now asked for and reported, with the same fallback napalm-linux uses:
dpkg leaves the field empty when it equals Version, and an older dpkg
leaves it empty because it does not know the field at all. Neither may
produce a package without a coordinate.
tests/test_packages.py covers all of it, including that the *query* names
the field — the assertion that would have caught this.