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Re: Dash and dot in package version



On Saturday 16 May 2009 07:00:00 Ludovico Cavedon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I could not find exactly how "-" and "." are ordered in package names.
> Are they equivalent, counting as non-digits?
> 
> My actual problem is:
> -current version of qutecom is "2.2~rc3.dfsg1"
> -as per lintian warning, the next version will be "+dfsg1" instead of
> ".dfsg1"
> -latest upstream version is still 2.2~rc3, but I would like to upload a
> more recent snapshot from upstream hg. What would be the correct
> packager version?
> 
> - "2.2~rc3+hg365+dfsg1", being lucky that "+hg" comes after "+dfsg"
> - "2.2~rc3-hg365+dfsg1", but would have the "-" any drawback I do not see?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludovico
> 
> 

Try dpkg --compare-versions

Noel
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