On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 11:07:00PM +0200, Roland Mas wrote: > Kenneth Pronovici (2002-10-12 12:46:00 -0500) : > > libsort-versions-perl > > From a very selfish point of view, I'd like to ask whether this module > has a function to compare versions with the exact same algorithm dpkg > uses (upstream, debian revision, and characters such as + and ~ > located where they belong in the ordering sequence). If so, then I'd > be happy to sponsor that one (my use for it is a package currently > using a compare_versions() subroutine that runs dpkg through system(), > which is, well, yuk).
libapt-pkg-perl gives you AptPkg::Version, which has a compare() method. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
