Re: RFS: pdftk (major NMU, fixes RC bugs)

[Johann Felix Soden <johfel@gmx.de>]

Am Montag, den 14.09.2009, 22:48 +0200 schrieb Pietro Battiston:
> Il giorno lun, 14/09/2009 alle 22.20 +0200, Johann Felix Soden ha
> scritto:
> > Dear mentors,
> > 
> > I am looking for a sponsor for my NMU of the package "pdftk".
> > 
> > In the last month, I sent two mails to its maintainer (Aurélien GÉRÔME)
> > concerning his package/this NMU but got no reply.
> > 
> > To solve the (RC) bugs, I have to change lots of things. See below for
> > the shortened changelog. So this is not a normal small-diff NMU.
> > 
> > * Package name    : pdftk
> >   Version         : 1.41+dfsg-0.1
> 
> pietro@vousci:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 1.41+dfsg-0.1 ge 1.41-3
> pietro@vousci:~$ echo $?
> 0
> 
> am I missing something?!
Yes.
>From manpage of dpkg:
 dpkg returns success (zero result) if the specified condition is 
 satisfied, and failure (nonzero result) otherwise.

Perhaps a test with 'gt' (instead of 'ge') is more useful (but gives the
same result in this case).

Johann Felix Soden