On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 05:02:18PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 10:32:49AM -0400, Paul Kimoto wrote: >> # dpkg --compare-versions 1%3a0.0.1-1 gt 2002.10.12-2 ; echo $? >> 1
> %3a is the HTML encoding for the colon character :) > > % dpkg --compare-versions 1:0.0.1-1 gt 2002.10.12-2 ; echo $? > 0 > > I suspect your problem is something else, with APT, because APT is the only > thing that does this perverted encoding and occasionally displays it to the > users. Aha, I see. APT displays it to me in the filesystem: $ cd /var/cache/apt/archives; ls hostap-source_* hostap-source_1%3a0.0.1-1_all.deb hostap-source_2002.10.12-2_all.deb
