Re: Summary[2]: dpkg and alpha/beta versioning
Martin Oldfield <m@mail.tc> writes:
> Rather than treating the ~ as introducing a special case which always
> compares lower than something else, does it help to make numbers to
> the right of the ~ add fractions to the integer part ? Since the
> version number is now a rational number you can have arbitrary numbers
> of releases before hitting 8. A possible sequence in the case that's
> been discussed might be
>
> 2.0.7 < 2.0.7~1 < 2.0.7~2 < 2.0.7~21 < 2.0.8
The problem here is that it's hard for the user to figure out that
2.0.7~1 is actually equivalent to the upstream 2.0.8pre1, whereas
2.0.8~pre1 makes it pretty clear.
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