On Friday 09 November 2007 10:38, Andrea Righi wrote:
> > The '~' operator in debs is pretty useful for doing pre-releases,
> > since it sorts < 0.
> > 
> > 4.0.0~svn1234 is < 4.0.0.
> > 4.0.1~rc1-1 < 4.0.0-1
> > etc.
> > 
> 
> And RPM doesn't support it... deb is good, RPM is evil. :-)
> 

All this comes from the incrementation of the version number after tagging it.
If you leave the version number alone and increment it only when tagging:

  4.0.0  <  4.0.0.svn1234  <  4.0.1  <  4.0.1.svn1300

Best regards,
Erich


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