Re: PRE Version numbers

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

In Tue, 16 Jan 2001 00:18:06 +1000 Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> cum veritate scripsit :

> $ dpkg --compare-versions '1.4-0pre2-1' '<<' '1.4-1'; echo $?
> 1
> 
> Apparently dpkg treats 1.4-0pre2-1 as greater than 1.4-1, so this
> wouldn't work...

I guess, 1.4-0.pre2-1 would be the solution...
It doesn't look that nice, but it is what it is.

Also some people seem to use

1.3+1.4pre2-1 etc.

This seems to work too... 

It'd be nice if there was something in the developers
manual because this discussion seems to come up in debian-devel
from time to time.



regards,
	junichi

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