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

[Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>]

> What exactly do you mean by numerically?  Is 0.00001 == 0.01 == 0.1 ==
> 1.0 == 10 == 100000?  What should be watched out for?

>From the debian policy manual (section 4):

"The strings are compared from left to right.

First the initial part of each string consisting entirely of non-digit
characters is determined. These two parts (one of which may be empty)
are compared lexically. If a difference is found it is returned. The
lexical comparison is a comparison of ASCII values modified so that all
the letters sort earlier than all the non-letters.

Then the initial part of the remainder of each string which consists
entirely of digit characters is determined. The numerical values of
these two parts are compared, and any difference found is returned as
the result of the comparison. For these purposes an empty string (which
can only occur at the end of one or both version strings being compared)
counts as zero.

These two steps (comparing and removing initial non-digit strings and
initial digit strings) are repeated until a difference is found or both
strings are exhausted."

randolph


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