On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 07:49:35PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > On Tue, January 3, 2006 09:47, Gregor Richards wrote: > > > I updated the package to 1.0.0. The version compare algorithm doesn't > > > like it ... it thinks that 1.0.0 is less than 1.0.0rc5 ... but that's not > > > how release candidates work :) > > That's indeed a caveat on the Debian version compare algorithm. When > > you're packaging a release candidate, you normally should watch out for > > adding 'rcN' to the version to avoid being able to update it to the real > > version later. > > What's done commonly is something like this: 0.9.9+1.0.0rc5, or for a > > higher version: 2.4.3+2.4.4rc1. > I believe this practice has been obsolete since the release of sarge. > dpkg now considers "~" to sort before anything, even a null string, so > you can use e.g. "1.0.0~rc5". You can't upload such a version to the Debian archive, so the older trick is not obsolete. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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