Hi Pierre, On 2020-09-28 22:47, Pierre Gruet wrote: > Thanks for your advice! Nevertheless, this seems to rank before the > current version number, as > > echo "2.6.3+dfsg-2,2.6.3+dfsg1-1" | tr ',' '\n' | sort --version-sort > > outputs > > 2.6.3+dfsg1-1 > 2.6.3+dfsg-2
Debian (dpkg) uses slightly different mechanism for version comparison than 'sort': dpkg --compare-versions 2.6.3+dfsg-2 '<<' 2.6.3+dfsg1-1 && echo LESS outputs 'LESS'. Thus AFAIK it is usual for '+dfsg1' to follow '+dfsg'. Best, Andrius
