On Mon, 06 Nov 2006, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Maybe give more concrete examples of usage of the tilde?
>
> > I know this is the policy, but it should still translate in useful
> > information for the packager: I expect to see at least an example
> >
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 09:11:06AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> --- orig/policy.sgml
> +++ mod/policy.sgml
> @@ -2716,7 +2716,13 @@
> sort earlier than all the non-letters and so that a tilde
> sorts before anything, even the end of a part. For example,
> the follo
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Maybe give more concrete examples of usage of the tilde?
> I know this is the policy, but it should still translate in useful
> information for the packager: I expect to see at least an example
> explaining that "1.0~beta1~svn1245 < 1.0~beta1 < 1.0"
On Sun, 05 Nov 2006, Russ Allbery wrote:
> @@ -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 earli
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
Hello dpkg developers,
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 v
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