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



Previously Rob Browning wrote:
> 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.

What about 1.1 < 1.1--1 ? (ie repeating the - to get the two meanings:
the first as a seperator, the second as a negative-sign). We don't even
have to modify dpkg to do that IIRC..

Wichert.

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