On Mon, 06 Nov 2006, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Maybe give more concrete examples of usage of the tilde?
>
> > I know this is the policy, but it should still translate in useful
> > information for the packager: I expect to see at least an example
> >
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 09:11:06AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> --- orig/policy.sgml
> +++ mod/policy.sgml
> @@ -2716,7 +2716,13 @@
> sort earlier than all the non-letters and so that a tilde
> sorts before anything, even the end of a part. For example,
> the follo
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Maybe give more concrete examples of usage of the tilde?
> I know this is the policy, but it should still translate in useful
> information for the packager: I expect to see at least an example
> explaining that "1.0~beta1~svn1245 < 1.0~beta1 < 1.0"
On Sun, 05 Nov 2006, Russ Allbery wrote:
> @@ -2713,7 +2713,10 @@
> which may be empty) are compared lexically. If a difference
> is found it is returned. The lexical comparison is a
> comparison of ASCII values modified so that all the letters
> - sort earli
Hi Russ,
On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 18:50:26 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Could you please review the following patch to Debian Policy to document
> the use of ~ in version numbers and confirm that this matches dpkg's
> behavior? I'd like to get this into Policy since it's already in
> widespread use
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