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Date:      Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:50:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr>
Cc:        Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bin/18030: [PATCH] pkg_version thinks 4.04 > 4.1
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004171549430.50194-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <2000-04-17-17-55-43%2Btrackit%2Bsam@inf.enst.fr>

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On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> On 17/04, Bill Fumerola wrote:
> | On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 12:00:03AM -0700, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> | 
> | >  a2ps 4.12 > a2ps 4.3, and your patch will break it. There is no way to make
> | >  this fully automated.
> | 
> | Ignore leading zeros?
> 
> You missed the point: this is the current situation (which works fine
> with a2ps and not for the other software, as 4.04 is less recent than
> 4.1, ignoring leading zeros (or doing a numerical comparaison, which
> holds the same result) gets it wrong).

Yet another reason for internal package version numbers.

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