Bug#205960: Version comparing and ~

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:41:06AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> Previously Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > Are you sure that it actually worked in 0.5.5?  Nothing has changed in that
> > area since then, and I just tested with apt 0.5.5.1 and 3.0~rc1-1 compares
> > greater than 3.0-1 there as well.
> 
> >From the changelog:
> 
> apt (0.5.5) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   * New deb version compare function, that has no integer limits, and
>     supports pre-versions using ~.  Code ported from dpkg.
> 
> If that change went missing it should definitely be restored.

I know the change was made; I just don't know if it was working as expected.
I don't think anything since 0.5.5 has broken this, so if there are bugs,
they probably existed in 0.5.5 as well.

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 - mdz