Re: FTP Installation & Package Naming Conventions

["brian (b.c.) white" <bcwhite@bnr.ca>]

>brian white writes ("Re: FTP Installation & Package Naming Conventions "):
>> Also, while the versions are not choosen by Debian, the format in which
>> they are written could be.  It really makes little difference whether it
>> is called "bison-A2.5-0.deb" or "bison-2.5A-0.deb".
>
>The sorting implications are very different, and this is important
>because dpkg and dselect can be reluctant to downgrade packages.

Ah, so these version num...er...strings are lexigraphically ordered?  I never
saw that documented anywhere.

                                        Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@bnr.ca )

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