Re: lintian: r132 - trunk/lib
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 04:46:44PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 04:24:08PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> > To be honest, I'm a bit wary of another implementation of version
> > compare... there is iirc already a perl module doing so (devscripts uses
> > it), and it just adds another place where possible bugs etc in version
> > compare can be. dpkg's implementation changed and was also fixed later,
> > it's not yet in policy, it could be a hell to change all version compare
> > implementations there are withing debian...
>
> You're right. When I wrote this module a year ago I searched for
> existing replacements but to be honest, not finding
> /usr/share/devscripts/Devscripts/Versort.pm is nothing I'm ashamed
> off... But you're right the modules look very similar.
> Perhaps we should try to coordinate the creation of a stand-alone
> Perl module that can then be shared between packages.
There's one in debbugs as well ...
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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