Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [clear explanation]
thanks very much. > Unfortunately, -3sarge1 sorts before -3.1, so if you want as maintainer > to backport a NMU to sarge, you're out of luck for straightforward > solutions. I'll see that there won't be NMU's to be backported... By the way, why are only alphanumerics, . and + allowed in version numbers? If this were less resctrictive, one could do dpkg --compare-versions 1-3_sarge.1 gt 1-3.1; echo $? 0 Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
