On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 06:54, Philip Blundell wrote:
> Unfortunately your sdp package has fallen victim to the way ipkg
> interprets version numbers: "1.0-kc1" compares as lower than
> "1.0rc3-hh1". I have moved the old package out of the feed, so new
> installations should pick up the right one, but anybody attempting to
> upgrade will need to manually uninstall the old version.
According to the ipkg sources, it is intrepreting the version numbers
Debian style.
It seems to think that version numbers are
epoch:ver-debver
where epoch: is optional, where ver can be anything but trailing -foo is
interpreted as debian version. If the package version had a -foo it
grabs it with unexpected resutls.
Every time I run into this kind of problem I go back and look at it and
it seems that the behavior is correct according to the spec. I think
it's broken and would like to fix it, if no one has any problems with
that.
-Jamey
Received on Wed Feb 26 2003 - 18:24:04 EST
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