On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 00:08:03 +1000, Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote: > Version number comparison is checked with 'dpkg --compare-versions', and > the format is checked automatically by various tools. I've never found > it necessary to look at the details of either except when I'm poking at > apt or dpkg's internals, or when I've needed to do something really weird. You say I should read the source of dpkg when I need to do something really weird about version number (cope with -pre and -beta, rebuild with dbs and so on)? Digits, dots and hyphens do not always work.
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