On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 02:51:27PM +0100, Ingo Saitz wrote:
> But does katie (the new dinstall) check the versions of the
> tarball, too or only the version of the debian packgae that's in
> the .dsc file? If not, you could use the following versions:
>
> upstream-version debian-revision version
> 1.4-0pre1 - 1 = 1.4-0pre1-1
> 1.4-0pre1 - 2 = 1.4-0pre1-2
> 1.4-0pre2 - 1 = 1.4-0pre2-1
> 1.4 - 1 = 1.4-1
>
> According to hte packaging manual ch. 5, "dpkg will break the
> upstream-version and debian-revision apart at the last hyphen in
> the string."
$ dpkg --compare-versions 1.4-0pre2-1 lt 1.4-1 && echo true || echo false
false
Doesn't matter what katie will do, this doesn't work. If it did, I
wouldn't have to implement the ~ thing for preversions and backports.
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Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Free software developer
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