On 27 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Well, if we are to use ~ as a the symbol that compares > lower than everything; please do not change how debian revisions are > separated from the upstream version(split at the last hyphen); Also, > consider allowing a ~ to be in either the Debian revision and/or the > upstream version. Therefore, ~ becomes an valid character in > upstream versions and debian revions(with special sort semantics), > but everything else in ch 5 of the packaging manual holds.
I was thinking simply adding a new rule that says if you have two groups and one group is a ~ character then the ~ character looses in all cases. The provision for '~' < '~0' requires a bit of a tweak to the way it compares numbers, but is quite doable. What will it take to get this accepted - assume we can get all the code in place, including a dpkg patch. Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
