Ian Jackson writes ("Re: willing to contribute verrevcmp to gnulib?"): > What precisely is the problem ? Is it just that the version in dpkg > is GPLv2+ and you want something more liberal ?
And which files are we talking about ? NB that the dpkg comparison algorithm was recently extended to support a new character ~ which sorts before the empty string. This work wasn't done by me - but I approve of it and it should be in the gnulib version too. Ian.