Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 978-1] New GnuPG packages fix invalid success return
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:40:29 +0000, Brian Brazil wrote:
> This won't upgrade automatically as the version in Sarge/AMD64 is
> higher, specifically "1.4.1-1.0.1". According to pdo.d.n, all other
> archs have "1.4.1-1".
>
> By my reading of Debian Policy[1], the comparison of "1.0.1" and
> "1sarge1" compares the 1s numerically (equal) and then compares the '.'
> to the 's', which results in the '.' having a lower version.
>
> I don't know enough about security version numbering practice to suggest
> a fix.
> Brian
>[1]
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version
From the gnupg changelog.Debian.gz
gnupg (1.4.1-1.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
* BinNMU to get the depedencyies on libusb and libreadline, they were
missing in the last upload.
it sounds like a 1.4.1-1.0.1sarge1 is needed with the dependencies change
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