On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:

> Was epoch implemented?  How do I use it? 

Add '<epoch>:' to the front of the version.  The epoch has to be a
number.  For example:

$ dpkg --compare-versions '2' gt '3'
$ echo $?
1
$ dpkg --compare-versions '1:2' gt '3'
$ echo $?
0


Guy


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