> It was a comment on dpkg's notion of '"', and had nothing to do with your > patch, which seems to match dpkg's interpretation (and passes the tests in > versiontest.cc). Okay, I understand it :-)) Let's forget this bugreport and patch :-))) I still can't understand what your problem with dpkg's notion of '~' is. I'm actually interested in it, but yes, it's a different story now :-) -- Egmont