On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 11:13:51AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: ... > > I don't think so. Because the first added character is still a dot. > > Adding +0 +1 +2 etc. instead of .0 .1 .2 etc. may work better, but is > > probably not completely sane either. > > After sleep and rethink, I was thinking the same and agree with you. > > > I generally would not try to squeeze suffix preference into the > > version comparison itself, but do the suffix ordering in a separate > > dimension, e.g. first sort by version and if there's more than one > > file for the newest version, then sort them by suffix priority. > > But that requires real feature addition to the sorting code and > non-trivial. > > Immediate easy workaround is adding +0 +1 +2 etc. instead of .0 .1 .2 > which is trivial. (Or maybe addint +9990 +9991 +9992 to avoid collision > with +1 used by the upstream.) This is not the perfect solution. But > this is trivial to do and works for most cases.
I found a very trivial fix for this problem: "Create fake a debian version and sort it while disabling error check." Osamu
