On Tuesday 31 July 2007 01:45, Bluefuture wrote: > We need to have more statistical data about debian and upstream strange > version numbering to do a better comparison. For example there is no > standard way to cvs and svn version naming in debian.
Still, a part of the bug here could still be addressed. What is needed is to scan for a dash from the end of the version string, and separate it there into 'debian revision' and 'upstream'. E.g. this version number: 1.4.6-20060409-1 should be split in upstream '1.4.6-20060409' and debian '1'. Thijs
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