On Monday 22 September 2008 14:36:02 Eric Blake wrote: > On the other hand, the fact that strverscmp provides a distinction based > on leading zeros is nice, as it guarantees a stable sort (no two strings > that differ on strcmp will compare equal with strverscmp). Good point, thanks.
The function should return 0 if (and only if) the strings are identical. In other case, the relative order of equivalent (from filevercmp perspective) strings will be ambiguous. So the sort -V or ls -v results can be dependent on particular sort algorithm (or its parameter). I will try to improve dpkg's code in this way. Kamil
