On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 11:54 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > It's not only an infrastructure problem. If you Depends on X (>= 1.8), > > this will be true with X 1:1.6 as well. > > Only if your program is severely buggy. > > Hint: either it matches dpkg --compare-versions exactly, or it is a > severe bug. For extra clarity: $ if dpkg --compare-versions 1.8 '>=' 1:1.6; then echo 1.8 comes after 1:1.6; else echo no it does not; fi no it does not $ A version with a lower epoch (or no epoch, which is implicitly a zero epoch) always compares less than one with a higher epoch. This is regardless of what comes after the epoch in a version number. Otherwise there would be little point to epochs. For the gory details, see the policy manual: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#s-f-version
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