On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:02:22PM -0700, Yves Arrouye wrote: > In my quest to figure out how to number a prerelease package for ICU that > will be upgraded by icu-1.7-1 (final release), I came up with names like: > > 1.7.0.pre.20001012 > > which work w/ dpkg version comparison but also mean that the Debian revision > is non-numeric, as it is 0.pre.20001012. Is that allowed?
% dpkg --compare-versions 1.7.0 gt 1.7-pre-20001012 || echo false % dpkg --compare-versions 1.7.0 gt 1.7pre.20001012 || echo false That way, you can use any Debian revision, upgrading will work. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
