Hi! On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 09:42:11 +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.17.23 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch
> I've expanded the dpkg man page section on --compare-versions as > follows: > > --compare-versions ver1 op ver2 > ... > ... These are provided only for compatibility with control file syntax: > < << <= = >= >> >, are deprecated and should not be used, due to > confusing semantics. To illustrate: 0.1 < 0.1 evaluates as true. > I've spend an hour or two before figuring out, that it was the weird '<' '>' > semantics that is "broken". So I'd be glad if you could include more > explicit documentation of the problem and spare others wasting their time > debuging the fallout of these particular semantics. Right, I'm marking '<' and '>' as deprecated there, and making the code issue a warning in the same way the control file parser is doing. I don't think the rest of the operators deserve to be deprecated though. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
