Re: Package versioning and upgrades

["Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 11:55:11AM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> On Mar 27, 2015, at 10:25 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
> > So always use ~wheezy suffix when building for wheezy and use no suffix
> > when building for jessie
> 
> This used to work, but doesn't seem to any more… I'm at a loss.
> 
> 	wheezy:		0.6.4-1.1-1-wheezy
> 	wheezy-daily:	0.6.4-12-0c60cc-wheezy
> 	jessie:		0.6.4-1.1-1
> 	jessie-daily:	0.6.4-12-0c60cc
> 
> Checking the 'wheezy' and 'jessie' packages:
> 
> 	$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.6.4-1.1-1-wheezy lt 0.6.4-1.1-1; echo $?
> 	1
> 	$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.6.4-12-0c60cc-wheezy lt 0.6.4-12-0c60cc; echo $?
> 	1
> 
> So ISN'T true! What did I miss?

~ and - is not the same thing.  ~ is special in version numbers.

[0]lsorense@caffeine(~)> dpkg --compare-versions 0.6.4-1.1-1-wheezy lt 0.6.4-1.1-1; echo $?
1
[0]lsorense@caffeine(~)> dpkg --compare-versions 0.6.4-1.1-1~wheezy lt 0.6.4-1.1-1; echo $?
0

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Len Sorensen