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.
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