Thanks for the confirmation! martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.08.23.1908 +0200]:
>> Is there a document anywhere outside of the dpkg source that explains >> the algorithm for how version numbers are ordered by the archive >> software? > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version *sigh*. I'm sorry about that; I've read that several times but thought something more complex was going on under the hood, since it didn't seem to explain this case. I completely missed the following sentence: | The lexical comparison is a comparison of ASCII values modified so that | all the letters sort earlier than all the non-letters. which does indeed entirely explain why "rc" sorts before ".". Thank you for the kick in the right direction! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
