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Re: dpkg version comparison



On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Anthony Towns wrote:

> Jason, apt also seems to suffer from the "integer overflow when comparing
> versions bug", but differently: instead of getting random values, it
> seems to decide all big numbers are exactly the same. Weird.

Mm, shouldn't be different, it depends on the strtoul works on
overflow conditions..

I'm not sure we actually should change the version comparision function,
but the long number thing is unlikely to effect anything..

Jason



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