Re: Re: Sorting of '-' and '.' is equal in versions of R packages (Was: Do R autopkgtests not respect versioned Deps?)
On 21 September 2021 at 14:10, Nilesh Patra wrote:
| That was what I said "I'd have not known that 1.3-4 < 1.3-2-1 in Debian versioning, *if* R upstream treated '.' and '-' as different"
It is my understanding that _this_ issue was due also to you specifying fewer
level on the left than on the right as I my believe email showed
1.3-4-2 > 1.3-2-1
Here it is again more explicitly also showing the output:
edd@rob:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 1.3-4-2 gt 1.3-2-1 && echo true
true
edd@rob:~$
| I think it works perfectly fine in upstream ecosystem. Just that it's not compatible with _our_ versioning schemes.
I am actually not that far from a 20-year anniversary of the first r-cran-*
package here and I disagree. It can be worked around with care. See above.
Dirk
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