* Vincent Lefevre:
> On 2019-06-26 18:40:50 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> Perhaps the coreutils manual could be improved to make this all clearer, and
>> perhaps it should refer to the Debian manual if it doesn't already.
>
> In this case, there should be a new ordering option to provide
> true
Vincent Lefevre writes ("Re: bug#35939: version sort is incorrect with
hyphen-minus"):
> On 2019-06-26 18:40:50 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Perhaps the coreutils manual could be improved to make this all clearer, and
> > perhaps it should refer to the Debian man
On 2019-06-26 18:40:50 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Perhaps the coreutils manual could be improved to make this all clearer, and
> perhaps it should refer to the Debian manual if it doesn't already.
In this case, there should be a new ordering option to provide
true numeric sort with strings
Thanks for looking into this. Sorry about my confusion between
strverscmp and filevercmp. As this bug report appears to be about
filevercmp, glibc is not involved; it's only Gnulib and the utilities
using Gnulib's filevercmp module.
As I now understand it, Gnulib filevercmp is intended to be
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: bug#35939: version sort is incorrect with
hyphen-minus"):
> Paul Eggert writes ("Re: bug#35939: version sort is incorrect with
> hyphen-minus"):
> > GNU sort uses the same algorithm as glibc strverscmp, and this algorithm
> > has
Paul Eggert writes ("Re: bug#35939: version sort is incorrect with
hyphen-minus"):
> GNU sort uses the same algorithm as glibc strverscmp, and this algorithm has
> changed only once since strverscmp was added to glibc in 1997. The change was
> made in 2009, to fix t
Hello Paul,
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 12:57:14PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> GNU sort uses the same algorithm as glibc strverscmp,
I think that both sort and ls use 'filevercmp' - a simplified version
that does not support locales (and doesn't fail).
The change (from 'strvercmp') was made in:
On 2019-06-26 12:25:26 -0600, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> "ls -v" and "sort -V" (coreutils' version sort) behaves differently than
> other implementations in regards to minus character:
>
> $ printf "%s\n" abb ab-cd | sort -V
> abb
> ab-cd
>
> $ v1="abb"
> $ v2="ab-cd"
> $ dpkg
Assaf Gordon writes ("Re: bug#35939: version sort is incorrect with
hyphen-minus"):
> Thanks for the report and the clear details.
Hi. I haven't read the original report, but everything you say about
the behaviour of GNU coreutils and dpkg sounds correct.
This is perhaps an unfort
GNU sort uses the same algorithm as glibc strverscmp, and this algorithm has
changed only once since strverscmp was added to glibc in 1997. The change was
made in 2009, to fix this bug:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9913
Has the Debian version-comparison algorithm changed
(Adding Ian Jackson for dpkg/debian-version details)
Hello,
On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 02:53:39AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> With GNU coreutils 8.30 under Debian/unstable, I get:
>
> $ LC_ALL=C ls
> ab-cd abb abe
> $ LC_ALL=C ls -v
> abb abe ab-cd
>
> The hyphen-minus character should
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