Hi,
>>"Lalo" == Lalo Martins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Placement of pre-epoch is an irrelevant implementation detail.
Lalo> Actually, no. If they're in the right side of the upstream
Lalo> version, dpkg can keep the current left-to-right algo. However,
Lalo> the most important reason for putting them to the right is
Lalo> clarity; different from epochs, pre-epochs _should_ be shown in
Lalo> dselect, and having them in the right makes the user see them
Lalo> for what they are.
Actually, Jason came up with a superior suggestion: let a
character (illegal in the current policy) be chosen to be a character
that sorts lower than anything else. (the current contender is ~)
This char can be placed anywhere in the version --
2.0.8~pre1 sorts higher than 2.0.7;
2.0.8~pre1 sorts lower than 2.0.8;
It can even be used multiple times in the version:
2.0.8~pre1~1 sorts lower than 2.0.8~pre1;
No special "epoch" semantics; `~' just hasspecial sort
semantics in that it sort lower than anything (even lower than
nothing)
I like that ;-)
manoj
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