Bug#205960: Version comparing and ~
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:36:46AM +0200, Koblinger Egmont wrote:
> > Are you sure that it actually worked in 0.5.5? Nothing has changed in
> > that area since then, and I just tested with apt 0.5.5.1 and 3.0~rc1-1
> > compares greater than 3.0-1 there as well.
>
> No, I'm not sure :(( I remember I have tested it and it worked correctly
> (0.5.5 definitely compared some versions differently than 0.5.4, since the
> list of packages 0.5.4 wanted to upgrade differed from what 0.5.5 wanted
> to upgrade, having some packages with ~ in their version) but now I can't
> reproduce it with older versions (I don't have 0.5.5 source, only 0.5.5.1
> and 0.5.[7-9]). Either I'm completely stupid, or it depends on the exact
> values of the version strings (heisenbug), or it got broken in 0.5.5.1.
That code didn't change from 0.5.5 to 0.5.5.1. It's probably just that this
case is somehow different from the one(s) which worked before, if indeed
others worked before.
> The first entry in 0.5.5's changelog says it should work correctly since
> then.
Yes, this was clearly the intention, but the behaviour doesn't match.
> Anyway, no matter if it already worked once or not, it is a bug that
> currently it's not working. :-))
Yes.
> Do you have 0.5.5 source? Could you please test with it whether it was
> working then, or send the source tarball to me for testing? (It's okay in
> email.)
0.5.5 source is available from apt CVS with the tag 'v0_5_5'. I think
you'll find that it exhibits the same behaviour, though.
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- mdz
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