Ben Finney wrote:
> On 22-Dec-2005, Justin Pryzby wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 03:30:44PM +0100, Jonas Genannt wrote:
>>> One problem exists,Linda says:
>>> W: libjavascript-rpc-perl; Package version 0.1-1 is less than 0.05-1.
>> Its also a problem since 0.1 >> 0.05
>
> Version strings are not floating-point numbers. Is 0.05 greater than
> 0.0.6?
>
> They are, by convention, interpreted as sequences of integers. Thus,
> version 0.1 is a sequence of the integers [0, 1]. Version 0.05 is the
> sequence of integers [0, 05].
I could solve this with an epoch number in the versions field.
Greets,
Jonas
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