Re: Dash and dot in package version
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Ludovico Cavedon
<ludovico.cavedon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Jan Hauke Rahm <info@jhr-online.de> wrote:
>>> - "2.2~rc3-hg365+dfsg1", but would have the "-" any drawback I do not see?
>
> Ups, this does not work.
It does actually:
$ dpkg --compare-versions "2.2~rc3-hg365+dfsg1" gt "2.2~rc3+dfsg1" && echo true
$ dpkg --compare-versions "2.2~rc3-hg365+dfsg1-1" gt "2.2~rc3+dfsg1-1"
&& echo true
true
dpkg --compare-versions splits the string into upstream version and
debian release according to the last "-". So if we want to compare an
upstream version containing a "-" we need to expiclity add a debian
release (.e.g -1).
I also find out the answer to my original questions: '.', '+' and '-'
get no special treatment, but they follow ASCII ordering:
+ < - < .
Cheers,
Ludovico
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