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Re: ~ in package versions



On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 07:04:32PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> >>>>> "adam" == Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> writes:
>     adam> Namely, as you told me on irc, that dak uses ~ internally as
>     adam> a separator; this obviously conflicts with dpkg's use of it
>     adam> in versions.
> 
>     adam> So, to those wondering, this is more than just removing some
>     adam> simple forbiddince check.  It also requires not just
>     adam> completely allowing it; ~ can only be allowed for uploads
>     adam> into testing and unstable.
> 
>     Well and then what is pending for it?
> 
>     - DAK support for it;

Yes.

>     - APT support?

apt (0.5.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * New deb version compare function, that has no integer limits, and
    supports pre-versions using ~.  Code ported from dpkg.
  [...]

 -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Sun, 27 Apr 2003 01:23:12 -0500

(further fixed in 0.5.11, 10 Sep 2003)

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]



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