On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 11:55:11AM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> On Mar 27, 2015, at 10:25 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
> > So always use ~wheezy suffix when building for wheezy and use no suffix
> > when building for jessie
> 
> This used to work, but doesn't seem to any moreā€¦ I'm at a loss.
> 
>       wheezy:         0.6.4-1.1-1-wheezy
>       wheezy-daily:   0.6.4-12-0c60cc-wheezy
>       jessie:         0.6.4-1.1-1
>       jessie-daily:   0.6.4-12-0c60cc
> 
> Checking the 'wheezy' and 'jessie' packages:
> 
>       $ dpkg --compare-versions 0.6.4-1.1-1-wheezy lt 0.6.4-1.1-1; echo $?
>       1
>       $ dpkg --compare-versions 0.6.4-12-0c60cc-wheezy lt 0.6.4-12-0c60cc; 
> echo $?
>       1
> 
> So ISN'T true! What did I miss?

~ and - is not the same thing.  ~ is special in version numbers.

[0]lsorense@caffeine(~)> dpkg --compare-versions 0.6.4-1.1-1-wheezy lt 
0.6.4-1.1-1; echo $?
1
[0]lsorense@caffeine(~)> dpkg --compare-versions 0.6.4-1.1-1~wheezy lt 
0.6.4-1.1-1; echo $?
0

-- 
Len Sorensen


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