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



On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 02:22:27PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:

> > 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 :-)

> It's also a good idea to check against APT's implementation when
> playing with strange version numbers (because it's not the same).

Only if your purpose is to file bug reports about the difference, since any
divergence is a bug.

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