Hi, and sorry for the delay. On 25/02/09 at 17:03 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Andreas Tille wrote: > >> Regarding the version number I found >> >> http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/collab-qa/udd/sql/debvercmp.sql?view=markup >> >> which contains a function which implements `dpkg --compare-versions` in SQL >> which would be really handy for my task. Unfortunately this function seems >> not to exist in the live database: > > I did some deeper investigation into this topic and detected > > > http://www.nabble.com/Custom-type,-operators-and-operator-class-not-sorting-indexing-correctly-td21574579.html > > which discusses an even more advanced method to order result sets according > to Debian versions. Could some kind soul enlighten me whether (and how) I > can sort in UDD according to versions (and if this is not possible what to > do best).
The plan is to switch to Roger Leigh's work in UDD as well, but someone needs to do the work, and unfortunately, i'm very busy currently. See http://git.debian.org/?p=users/rleigh/sbuild.git;a=tree;f=db;hb=81fd39259953853632a7d0e2198cfc745d270fe3 for his code. > BTW, I've got some preliminary code for the DDTP and ftpnew gatherers. > Should I commit this to SVN in the (not fully working state) now or > should I finish my work first and commit then? Feel free to commit ; it can't break anything if it's not executed on udd.debian.org. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lu...@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
