On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:49:22 +0100 Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > That's already not the way things work, since different version > > strings can be equal versions (and it's illegal to do this), > > so it's not relevant to the discussion. > > This is a design flaw in our versioning system, and it can only occur > in some corner cases where version components have leading zeros.
You know, if we had GLEP 55, we could fix that. Although it's debatable whether it's a flaw, since we're trying to match upstream version formats where reasonably possible. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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