Assaf Gordon writes ("Re: bug#35939: version sort is incorrect with
hyphen-minus"):
> Thanks for the report and the clear details.
Hi. I haven't read the original report, but everything you say about
the behaviour of GNU coreutils and dpkg sounds correct.
This is perhaps an unfortunate wrinkle but I think it is right of
coreutils to use the "upstream part" of the dpkg algorithm.
> I hope this helps explain the differences (I also hope this explanation is
> correct, and I invite others to chime in).
I wonder if this could go in some manual somewhere.
Regards,
Ian.
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