On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 05:24:58PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > I'd actually go out on a limb and suggest that if we introduce a "less > than everything but null" operator such as ^, and policy it for > Binary-Only NMUs, that: > 2) Everything after the operator, including the operator itself be > stripped during version comparisons. > e.g. 1.2-1^1 == 1.2-1 Wouldn't this make automatic upgrades to binary NMUs cumbersome? You'd need a separate version comparison routine for deciding whether to upgrade the package, than for deciding whether package relationships are satisfied. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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