Hi all, I think the handling of empty strings in version numbers is wrong (tested with dpkg 1.10.10). I experienced with two packages pkg_1.1beta3-1_i386.deb and pkg_1.1-1_i386.deb. It seems that 1.1beta3-1 is newer than version 1.1-1. Is this true?
OK, let's analyze Debian Policy 3.6.1.0, section 5.6.11: * first "1.1" is compared with "1.1", they are equal, so the test continues * now "" is compared with "beta3" (is this correct, or is "-" compared with "beta3-"?) "an empty string" ... "counts as zero", so "0" is compared with "beta3", because of "letters sort earlier than all the non-letters" we obtain 1.1beta3-1 < 1.1-1 ! Even if "zero" is considered to be the first ascii character \0, "letters sort earlier" leads to 1.1beta3-1 < 1.1-1 Am I wrong? Jens
