Comment 5 for bug 289470

Debian's 2.0.870~rc3-0.2 is in fact mostly 869. Apparently there was a screwup at 2.0.870~rc3-0.1 where the version was incremented without unpacking the new sources, resulting in a huge backward diff.gz that basically made 870~rc3-0.1 the same as 869. At 870~rc3-0.2 they reverted two of the most obvious files (i.e. version.h) but it is still mostly 869.

That would explain why Mathias using 2.0.870~rc3-0.2 doesn't fix the problem while Daniel compiling 870-rc3 from source does.