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Re: Trying to backport valgrind to lenny



On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 07:08:22PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 05:54:21PM +0200, Carsten Aulbert wrote:
> > On Thursday 27 May 2010 17:43:37 Alexander Wirt wrote:
> > 
> > > Ok, let me see:
> > > libc6-dev-i386: libc6-dev-i386 | 2.7-18lenny1 |        stable | amd64
> > > 2.7 is smaller than 2.3.0 so this won't work with lenny.
> > 
> > I am confused...
> > 
> > $ dpkg --compare-versions "2.7" ">>" "2.3.0"; echo $?           
> > 0
> > 
> > Why is 2.7 smaller than 2.3.0?
> 
> Erm, it's not smaller - it's just as it should be :)  From
> dpkg's manual page:
[snip]

And, obviously, I need to sleep first, then remember to read things
in context and not just react to what seems to be the obvious
part of the question, and only then consider replying to e-mail.
Sorry for the lecture.

G'luck,
Peter

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