Re: Summary[2]: dpkg and alpha/beta versioning
On 27 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Well, if we are to use ~ as a the symbol that compares
> lower than everything; please do not change how debian revisions are
> separated from the upstream version(split at the last hyphen); Also,
> consider allowing a ~ to be in either the Debian revision and/or the
> upstream version. Therefore, ~ becomes an valid character in
> upstream versions and debian revions(with special sort semantics),
> but everything else in ch 5 of the packaging manual holds.
I was thinking simply adding a new rule that says if you have two groups
and one group is a ~ character then the ~ character looses in all cases.
The provision for '~' < '~0' requires a bit of a tweak to the way it
compares numbers, but is quite doable.
What will it take to get this accepted - assume we can get all the code in
place, including a dpkg patch.
Jason
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