Hi Russ, On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 18:50:26 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Could you please review the following patch to Debian Policy to document > the use of ~ in version numbers and confirm that this matches dpkg's > behavior? I'd like to get this into Policy since it's already in > widespread use in the archive, but the Policy proposal has gotten very few > comments.
> --- policy.sgml.orig 2006-06-19 22:20:13.000000000 -0700 > +++ policy.sgml 2006-09-08 13:09:35.000000000 -0700 > @@ -2649,8 +2649,8 @@ > Alphanumerics are <tt>A-Za-z0-9</tt> only. > </footnote> > and the characters <tt>.</tt> <tt>+</tt> <tt>-</tt> > - <tt>:</tt> (full stop, plus, hyphen, colon) and should > - start with a digit. If there is no > + <tt>:</tt> <tt>~</tt> (full stop, plus, hyphen, colon, > + tilde) and should start with a digit. If there is no > <var>debian_revision</var> then hyphens are not allowed; > if there is no <var>epoch</var> then colons are not > allowed. > @@ -2663,8 +2663,8 @@ > This part of the version number specifies the version of > the Debian package based on the upstream version. It > may contain only alphanumerics and the characters > - <tt>+</tt> and <tt>.</tt> (plus and full stop) and is > - compared in the same way as the > + <tt>+</tt> <tt>.</tt> <tt>~</tt> (plus, full stop, > + tilde) and is compared in the same way as the > <var>upstream_version</var> is. > </p> > > @@ -2713,7 +2713,10 @@ > which may be empty) are compared lexically. If a difference > is found it is returned. The lexical comparison is a > comparison of ASCII values modified so that all the letters > - sort earlier than all the non-letters. > + sort earlier than all the non-letters and so that a tilde > + sorts before anything, even the end of a part. For example, > + the following parts are in sorted order: <tt>~~<tt>, > + <tt>~~a</tt>, <tt>~</tt>, the empty part, <tt>a</tt>. > </p> > > <p> Seems right. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
