Re: Clarification about special characters in version and some suggestions

2019-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Samuel Henrique writes: > I suggest making it more explicit by adding an example to it and > explicitly writing the precedence of them, I did some tests with dpkg > --compare-versions to confirm and found out that that is (n being a > number): > "~ - n + ." eg.: 1.0~0-1 < 1.0-0-1 < 1.0-1 <

Clarification about special characters in version and some suggestions

2019-12-30 Thread Samuel Henrique
Hello team, I was writing this bugreport for repology today[0] and decided to re-read something in d-policy that was never very clear to me. I'm gonna try to be verbose to try to make myself more clear. 5.6.12. Version[1] It talks about how the characters ". + - ~" are evaluated both for