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

[Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>]

gsstark@mit.edu (Gregory S. Stark) writes:

I think you're right that debian-native packages couldn't use it, but
since this was primarily designed to deal with "unusual" upstream
version numbers, we shouldn't need it for debian packages.

> And it would break one of the current best-practices for dealing
> with precisely this situation:
> 
>  foo_2.1.109-pre2.1.110-2

This may not matter either, since (I believe) the proposal is
specifically intended to address this situation.  You would use this
instead:

  foo_2.1.110-pre2-2

and get the right sorting behavior, specifically

  foo_2.1.110-pre2-2 < foo_2.1.110

All that said, I think "-" has problems.  As Jason mentioned, we may
not want to have:

  1.1 < 1.1-1

and, as Adrian pointed out, I agree that it is somewhat hard to parse
visually.

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