On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 10:32:14AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > What I've locally now is the following (might get slightly refined > before the push though): > > --compare-versions is lax by default now, will still warn though. > One of the reasons I ended up with the strict parser for > --compare-versions was because I didn't want to expose a lax > parseversion() function through libdpkg. But I guess it makes sense > after all, as long as it's not the default mode.
Could you attach the patch for this to this bug-report? I'm interested, as I also have lots of local kernel packages whose version numbers begin with a letter and I find the dpkg source way too confusing to understand what it does. -- David A. Madore ( http://www.madore.org/~david/ ) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org