Re: How to bet back to a sane version number?

["Margarita Manterola" <margamanterola@gmail.com>]

On 4/17/07, Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.

Other posibilities:

~$ dpkg --compare-versions 4.22.3-1 lt 4.22_-3.1 && echo Yes
Yes
~$ dpkg --compare-versions 4.22.3-1 lt 4.22=-3.1 && echo Yes
Yes
~$ dpkg --compare-versions 4.22.3-1 lt 4.22@-3.1 && echo Yes
Yes
~$ dpkg --compare-versions 4.22.3-1 lt 4.22.--3.1 && echo Yes
Yes
~$ dpkg --compare-versions 4.22.3-1 lt 4.22.+-3.1 && echo Yes
Yes
$ dpkg --compare-versions 4.22.3-1 lt 4.22._-3.1 && echo Yes
Yes

I like "4.22_-3.1", it looks cleaner than "4.22..-3.1", and has one
less character.

The only thing that worries me a bit is that this prevents any 4.22.x
future upstream version. I guess that an epoch would be need in that
case. (4.22.3 already prevented any upstream version in 4.22.[123]).

--
Besos,
Marga