Hi Firewall :P > Ive read that a few times and still dont think i undersstand it properly, > can someone rephrase it in laymans terms ? > > I cant see any way of interpreting the policy in which 0.1 == 0.01, 0 is a > digit which still has to be compared, it looks to me like it has to be a > bug in dpkg. no, it means you split up the string into individual parts separated by the non-digit characters (. - etc) For each part *individually* you compare the numeric values. So, 3.01-4 is split up into '3', '01', '4' so, for 0.1 and 0.01 you are comparing 01 to 1, which are obviously the same. randolph
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