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Re: Debian version numbers and strcmp()



Adeodato Simó wrote:
> I'm tempted to say this is rather unfortunate: I always believed our
> version numbers to be comparable for *equality* using standard tools,
[snip]
> Is there a reason that would
> advise against changing it?
Probably, telling that 0.9 != 0.09 would break current dpkg/apt comparison algorithms and
will made them even more complex.

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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
Ukrainian C++ developer, Debian Maintainer, APT contributor

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