Bug#504357: [UDD] debvercmp.sql incorrectly implements the versions comparison system
On Mon, 03 Nov 2008, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> > 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.
If you know about the bug fixes, why didn't you tell us (dpkg team) about them
instead of simply submitting a bug and leaving us the investigation work?
Can you submit us those fixes?
> > I thought we were
> > using dpkg-dev's perl implementation, but apparently we don't, since it
> > doesn't work.
>
> Yes, you are: #504135
So there's no reason to ask them to switch to something else, they just need
to wait until dpkg is fixed and/or standardize the output so that it
always return -1, 0 and 1 instead of the full range.
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog
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