Re: 0.01-6 > 0.1-3 ?????

[Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>]

commence  Alan Shutko quotation:

> Federico Di Gregorio <fog@initd.org> writes:
>
>> that's right. dpkg compares numbers ... numerically. so 0.01 and
>> 0.1 are equivalent. then -6 > -3.
>
> What exactly do you mean by numerically?

Leading zeroes after the decimal point are ignored, by the looks of it.

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