On Wednesday 30 April 2003 16:14, David Roundy wrote: > > The usual way is using "pre1", "pre2", ..., "rc1", ..., "rel". As a > > matter of fact, this sorts nicely. > > Doesn't this have the problem that debian considers 1.2pre1 to be a > later version than 1.2? As Andrew and others wrote: no if you do it like: cfengine2-2.0.5-1 cfengine2-2.0.5+2.0.6-pre1 ... cfengine2-2.0.6-1 And, it shows clearly what's happening. martin