ls -v is irritating

[Sven Joachim]

I just upgraded coreutils from 6.12 to 7.1, and the new sorting behavior
of `ls -v' really irritates me.  Backup files are listed before the real
files, parent directory (..) at the very end...  At first I thought that
I had sorted by time and not by name in Emacs' dired:

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| dired-listing-switches is a variable defined in `dired.el'.
| Its value is "-alv"
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Is there a way to get the old behavior back?
By the way, this change is briefly mentioned in the NEWS file

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| * Noteworthy changes in release 7.0 (2008-10-05) [beta]
| [...]
|   ls -v now uses filevercmp function as sort predicate (instead of strverscmp)
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but it is not reflected in the manual node
(Info "(coreutils) More details about version sort").

Sven