Re: dpkg doing wrong math (0.09 = 0.9) ?-

[Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au>]

"Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@familiasanchez.net> writes:

> Except that the final comparison ignores that the number was to the
> right of the decimal, making the zero significant.

A '.' character in a version string isn't a decimal point. The
prevalence of versions strings containing more than one '.' character
should make this abundantly clear.

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