Re: Please review Policy change for ~ in versions

[Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 09:11:06AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> --- orig/policy.sgml
> +++ mod/policy.sgml
> @@ -2716,7 +2716,13 @@
>  	    sort earlier than all the non-letters and so that a tilde
>  	    sorts before anything, even the end of a part.  For example,
>  	    the following parts are in sorted order: <tt>~~</tt>,
> -	    <tt>~~a</tt>, <tt>~</tt>, the empty part, <tt>a</tt>.
> +	    <tt>~~a</tt>, <tt>~</tt>, the empty part,
> +	    <tt>a</tt>.<footnote>
> +	      One common use of <tt>~</tt> is for upstream pre-releases.
> +	      For example, this sort means <tt>1.0~beta1~svn1245</tt>

Maybe this last line should be:

	      For example,                 <tt>1.0~beta1~svn1245</tt>

> +	      sorts earlier than <tt>1.0~beta1</tt>, which sorts earlier
> +	      than <tt>1.0</tt>.
> +	    </footnote>
>  	  </p>


Kind Regards,
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Nekral