[Bug 1701756] [NEW] dpkg reports invalid character in version number on package 'compiz'

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When performing package related operations I get a warning about an
invalid character in version number. For example:

$ dpkg -l compiz
dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 8322 package 'compiz':
 error in 'Version' field string '1:0.9.12.2+6.04.20160823-0ubuntu1': invalid character in version number
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                Version        Architecture   Description
+++-===================-==============-==============-============================================
ii  compiz              1:0.9.12.2+    all            OpenGL window and compositing manager

$ sudo aptitude upgrade
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 8322 package 'compiz':
 error in 'Version' field string '1:0.9.12.2+6.04.20160823-0ubuntu1': invalid character in version number
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 8322 package 'compiz':
 error in 'Version' field string '1:0.9.12.2+6.04.20160823-0ubuntu1': invalid character in version number
                         
I am running 16.04:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
Release:	16.04

Please let me know if you need any more information.

** Affects: dpkg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: xenial
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dpkg reports invalid character in version number on package 'compiz'
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1701756
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