Bug#205960: Version comparing and ~
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 01:15:50PM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> [2003-08-18 12:32]:
> > > Yes, this was clearly the intention, but the behaviour doesn't match.
> >
> > OK, I see the problem. It's hitting the end of the string before it
> > compares the '~', so the shorter version number (3.0) is considered smaller
> > than the longer (3.0~rc1). It works in dpkg because it continues its
> > comparison onto the terminating null byte. The interface for apt, though,
> > is such that the string doesn't need to be null terminated at this point.
> > I'll see about fixing it.
>
> Is it possible to have a set of regression tests for these kind of
> things?
Check the apt CVS changelog for the past 24 hours. :-)
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- mdz
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