On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 16:54:59 +0800
konsolebox <konsole...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would that mean 5.1 is the same as 5.10?  That's clearly illegal to
> what most versioning schemes packages follow including the semantic
> versioning (http://semver.org/).

Semantic versioning is a new fad. Certain upstreams still think that
5.10 is a lower version that 5.2. Perl used to be notorious for doing
this, but they've partially changed in some places but not others.

The rules are a mess because they need to a reasonable job of dealing
with all the crazy.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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