On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:12:59 +0200, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
[...] > If it's not a bug in dpkg, could someone please elaborate on the > reasoning of this behaviour. I'd be grateful for any comments and > replies. It's documented in Policy 5.6.12 [1]. Substrings composed of digits are compared numerically, and so 09 == 9. (This is done to ensure that 10 > 9, for example.) [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version So I guess your only real option is to use an epoch. -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
