Hi Wookey, Wookey <wookey@wookware.org> writes: > +++ Jonathan Nieder [2013-05-07 16:14 -0700]: > >> It makes sense for Debian, too. Epochs were invented to handle >> changes to the version numbering *scheme*. They work well for that. > > This is true. It would be good advice somewhere to sugest that if > using a date-based packaging scheme, to prefix it with 0. i.e > 0.20130215 I note that that date-based version even with a 0. prefix still fails to work with the subsequent 0.6 from your example. ~ (tilde) with it's magic negative sort order, does work however: 0~20130215 Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND
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