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. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Free software developer "I am ecstatic that some moron re-invented a 1995 windows fuckup." -- Alan Cox
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