- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:22:26 +0000 (UTC)
- To: hendry@iki.fi
- Cc: Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>, Arve Bersvendsen <arveb@opera.com>, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>, public-appformats@w3.org
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Kai Hendry wrote: > > monty:~% dpkg --compare-versions 1.10.0 gt 1.2.0 && echo true > true Right, but: $ dpkg --compare-versions 1.002 gt 1.1 && echo true true ...which is what Marcos was describing as a bug. > In those accidental cases Debian uses an epoch. So a subsequent update > to a mistake like "110" is "1:1.1.1" And what happens if you typo the epoch and now you have 11:1.1? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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