Re: Please review Policy change for ~ in versions

2006-11-06 Thread Guillem Jover
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 in

Re: Please review Policy change for ~ in versions

2006-11-06 Thread Russ Allbery
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 How

Re: Please review Policy change for ~ in versions

2006-11-06 Thread Nicolas François
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 following

Please review Policy change for ~ in versions

2006-11-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Hello dpkg developers, 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 in the archive, but the Policy proposal has gotten