Re: How to bet back to a sane version number?
Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> wrote:
>> Otherwise, should I use 4.23~real.4.22-3.1 or similar beasts? Or just
>> go for 4.22.3-0.1 and leave the decision to the maintainer?
>
> FWIW you can experiment quite easily using
>
> dpkg --compare-versions x lt y && echo Yes
>
>
> Interestingly, "4.22.." is considered higher than "4.22.3". I'm not sure
> if this is good advice though :-)
I know --compare-versions, but I wasn't patient enough to come to
4.22.. But it 4.22..-3.1 doesn't look too bad to me actually, just
funny.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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