Re: Summary[2]: dpkg and alpha/beta versioning

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>]

On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Ian Jackson wrote:

> I think (b) is better.  I favour `-' as a character.  This has one
> negative consequence: you can't use it in a revision, because the
> revision is the part after the last `-'.  However, it does have a
> slightly good connotation of `subtraction'.

Currently,

1.1 < 1.1-1

So you want this to be reversed? Is that wise?

We were talking about version progressions like
1.1-1pre-1
1.1-2pre-1
1.1-1

which doesn't work if we use -

Jason



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