Bug#504357: [UDD] debvercmp.sql incorrectly implements the versions comparison system

[Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com>]

Hi Lucas,

Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> 
> Hi Raphael,
> 
> Do you know a perl implementation that works fine ?

Debbugs' (which is almost exactly the same as dpkg-dev's, differring by some bug
fixes) passes the test suite.

> I thought we were 
> using dpkg-dev's perl implementation, but apparently we don't, since it
> doesn't work.

Yes, you are: #504135

> 
> We could just switch to something that works.
> 
> Thanks a lot for your work on this, that's great :-) Have you reported
> about it somewhere?

Just in the buildd.d.o-related thread in -devel, nowhere else.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer
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