Hello, as reported in RH bugzilla #253817 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253817), there is an issue with ls -v (and there will be same issue with sort -V soon). Problem is with sorting files with extensions or dist-tags (like .tar.gz) because .tar.gz is more than .1.tar.gz. Therefore foo-5.0.tar.gz will be considered as later version than foo-5.0.1.tar.gz . As ls -v and sort -V now use glibc strverscmp() and this function is not going to change (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3506) , I would like to know your opinion how to solve the issue. I see several possible ways how to solve it: 1) keep it as it is and document those limitations 2) to use gnulib strverscmp() for ls -v and sort -V and to modify it somehow to handle such cases correctly 3) to use/create different function for handling version sort (like rpmvercmp in <rpm/rpmlib.h> recommended in glibc strverscmp() bugzilla)
Which way do you like? Or do you have different ideas?
Greetings,
Ondrej Vasik
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