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Re: dpkg doing wrong math (0.09 = 0.9) ?- [was: dak now supports ~ in version numbers]



On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 10:42:53AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> 
> I'd imagine you'd be hard pressed to find a mathematician who knows what to
> do with a number that reads 0.0.9, either.  That's why we're software
> developers, not mathematicians.
> 
> Or, to put it another way: your numbers are not our numbers.  <grin>
> 
I never said I was a mathematician :-)

The original comparison, though, was 0.09 and 0.9.

-Roberto

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