Hello, dumb question. Currently the vcswatch for proftpd-dfsg [1] reports:"OLD: VCS is behind the version in the archive: 1.3.8a+dfsg-1 < 1.3.8+dfsg-8."
According to deb-version(7) this is absolutely correct: First the initial part of each string consisting entirely of non-digit characters is determined. These two parts (one of which may be empty) are compared lexically. If a difference is found it is returned. The lexical comparison is a comparison of ASCII values modified so that all the letters sort earlier than all the non-letters and so that a tilde sorts before anything, even the end of a part.The upstream minor versions are always determined by letters, so I'm unsure how to make clear that 1.3.8a+ is later than 1.3.8+. Any hints?
Hilmar [1] https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/vcswatch?package=proftpd-dfsg -- sigfault
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