Re: Is dpkg --compare-versions canonical?
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:03:05 +0200, Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> said:
> * Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) [050823 22:58]:
>> Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
>> > It is out of date since it does not explain ~ yet. Maybe, if you
>> > have the time and since you just looked at the matter closely
>> > anyway, you could draw up a few lines and send a patch?
>> I'm certainly willing to do so, but I thought that policy wasn't
>> ready to change yet. Wasn't it waiting on implementation of that
>> feature in dak, which is currently using ~ internally for something
>> else?
> There is no reason to not update policy right now, as long as we add
> a footnote that ~ cannot be used in uploads until dak is fixed.
There is no tearing hurry to modify policy either. I would
rather not add provisions into policy that are not yet useable, and
add a temporal footnote preventing that use.This is just another case
of innovations getting ahead of policy, and then policy changes to
reflect reality.
manoj
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