Re: Need perl code to compare Debian packages version numbers...

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

> Hello,
> 
> as the subject says, I'm looking for the perl code to compare Debian
> packages version numbers.
> I think I already saw this somewhere, but can't remember in which package
> it was. Anybody can give me a pointer?

You can extract it from the code in /usr/share/devscripts/versort in
the devscripts package.  It's certainly non-trivial, and unless you
have a good reason to do it in Perl directly, dpkg --compare-versions
would be much easier.

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
        Debian GNU/Linux Developer,  see http://www.debian.org/~jdg