> LSB has chosen to leave "upgrade" UNSPECIFIED, > and has also chose in the "Berlin API" to ignore the > fact that both dpkg/rpm versions are a triple of > Epoch/Version/Release. > > Pretending that a "version" string can be anything, opaquely handled, > including E:V-R, or something else, misses the > issue that "upgrade" based on "version" is undecidable > until "version" is well formed, and a collate sequence > is defined for "upgrade" comparison.
the absence of any description of what "version" means is a bug in LSB, whether or not that issue is picked up by the Berlin proposal. upgrade is a little dicier in the LSB sense, as it seems different packaging systems may do quite different things here. Responding to that by pretending upgrades don't exist is the cowardly approach, I know... ______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org LSB Communication List rpm-lsb@rpm5.org
