On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Jonas Genannt wrote: > 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.
Or you could just say that the version is 0.10-1; which is what apparently upstream means anyway. Don Armstrong -- Information wants to be free to kill again. -- Red Robot http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1372 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
