On Tue, 2015-09-29 at 14:07:30 +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Guillem Jover dixit: > >You are comparing: > > > > Upstream Revision > > '2015.20150917-1~+without' - 'ruby' against > > '2015.20150917' - '1' > > Yes, I saw that too, while writing the report, but… > > >> Expected for all four to return 1. > > > >Not really. :) Closing now. > > … still expecting that. Why would a version number be split > into components, then each component compared by itself?
Because that's how the version comparison is specified to work. :) Check man deb-version (or debian-policy). Thanks, Guillem
