[Gnu-arch-users] Re: possible bug with version number sorting

[Stig Brautaset]

On Dec 08 2003, Paul wrote:
> > In a particular category (call it "foo"), I have the following
> > versions:
> > 
> >         foo--devel--0.1
> >         foo--devel--0.1.1
> >         foo--devel--0.1.2
> >         foo--devel--0.1.3
> >         foo--devel--0.1.4
> 
> Quoting the tutorial:
> "Notice that version numbers are always two positive integers, separated
> by a period. These are sometimes called the major and minor version."

The tutorial is outdated in that respect. Arch (tla) have supported
"unlimited"[0] length of version numbers for quite some time. 

[0] well, for any practical purpose anyway.

Stig

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