Re: Bug#574956: dpkg drops zero-epoch in status file
- To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
- Cc: David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>, 574956 <574956@bugs.debian.org>, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>, pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org, gregoa@debian.org, debian-dpkg <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
- Subject: Re: Bug#574956: dpkg drops zero-epoch in status file
- From: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
- Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 11:24:27 +0200
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On Mon, 03 May 2010, Florian Weimer wrote:
> But I think all implementations (except an obscure Ocaml one) agree on
> the first equality. Leading zeros are not significant here.
>
> On top of that, dpkg's epoch comparison algorithm yields different
> results on different architectures, and does not actually implement
> what is specified in policy. This has been known for a while.
Do you have a pointer? Can you record this as a bugreport if there's none
on this topic?
The "epoch comparison algorithm" is a simple integer comparison so I'm not
sure what difference we can have.
Since I'm not sure what kind of difference we're speaking about I don't
know whether dpkg has to be fixed or the policy.
Cheers,
--
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