Bug#205960: Patch
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:57:36AM +0200, Koblinger Egmont wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the patch. This is approximately what I had decided would need
> > to be done, but I'm not sure that I like it. It seems like the problem that
> > '~' was meant to solve should be solvable by some means which does not break
> > the rule that shorter version numbers are smaller. I'll think on it some
> > more.
>
> Sorry, I don't get what you mean... please show me an example :-))
An example of what?
> I even had so terrible ideas such as negative numbers (e.g. 3.-1.0) but I
> didn't like it.
That's pretty much exactly what '~' is, except that it takes effect at the
_end_ of the component rather than at the beginning (which is why it changes
the rules).
> Second, even though I haven't thoroughly tested my patch, I can't see
> where it can be buggy.
I didn't say that it was.
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- mdz
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