Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How does everyone else feel about the '~ compares less than everything` > idea? It seems like it could solve a few other problems - for instance > what do the bo-updates people do when they recompile dpkg? They don't have > the luxury of being able to change the hamm release number.
Fine with me. It avoids the source package name problem, and it's really no uglier than any other proposal. For now (in libgc4), I'm using the oldversion-newversion-pre1-* scheme, but I'd rather do what you're proposing. How many places will we have to change sorting algorithms, though? dpkg dpkg-dev? apt dftp? dinstall? We should probably compile a list and go through it. Actually what we should *really* do is provide int debian_compare_revisions(const char *a, const char *b); in a shared lib (or the base system), and then mandate that everyone use that. After that changes like this will be painless for everything except perhaps dftp (which is designed to run on non-debian systems). Given the shared lib, it would also be trivial to support access from dpkg-perl, python, guile, whatever... -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
