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Re: RFS: libjavascript-rpc-perl -- Perl module to process Remote procedure



On 22-Dec-2005, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 03:30:44PM +0100, Jonas Genannt wrote:
> > One problem exists,Linda says:
> > W: libjavascript-rpc-perl; Package version 0.1-1 is less than 0.05-1.
> Its also a problem since 0.1 >> 0.05

Version strings are not floating-point numbers. Is 0.05 greater than
0.0.6?

They are, by convention, interpreted as sequences of integers. Thus,
version 0.1 is a sequence of the integers [0, 1]. Version 0.05 is the
sequence of integers [0, 05].

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Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>

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