Re: willing to contribute verrevcmp to gnulib?

[Ian Jackson]

Also, ...
> > > Is there a chance that you would be willing to contribute to the
> > > FSF the actual code from dpkg for this?  (Otherwise, we will
> > > probably have one person write a formal specification for the
> > > version comparison algorithm, and then another person implement
> > > something equivalent from that specification.)

... even if someone does need to rewrite it, there is already a
specification in the Debian Policy Manual.

Ian.