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Re: Debian version numbers and strcmp()



On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Having a canonical implementation of the version comparison in a C
> library would be super, since all the other languages could just
> wrap it.

The implementation I wrote for debbugs is a fallback for when
libapt-pkg-perl isn't around; I think any language that can use a
library would be best off using it, with code that implements the C
verison of the dpkg comparison exactly as a fallback.

We probably do need a libdpkg at some point in time to get rid of this
kind of problem.
 

Don Armstrong

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