Re: upset, genini: different version ordering

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Aug 24 06:25, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-08-20 at 12:37 +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> > The idea that we need different way of sorting version strings for 
> > different packages seems really strange.
> > 
> > Does any other distro have something like this?  How do linux distros
> > handle the special version number sorting requirements that perl 
> > apparently has?
> 
> On Fedora, some Perl packages add extra dots to the package version so
> that they sort as expected, e.g.:
> 
> 0.23 => 0.23
> 0.2301 => 0.23.01
> 0.24 => 0.24
> etc.

So, shouldn't we do the same?


Corinna

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