On 7/28/07, Jaroslaw Swierczynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd say it's those packages' maintainers fault that they didn't make
> up for pacman's bug ;) Seriously, pacman's versiom comparing functions
> is buggy. Until it's fixed, such packages should be built with
> force=y.

I'm sorry, but that's just untrue. Looking at the two version numbers,
I have no idea which is supposed to be newer without reading the
original poster's comments; certainly pacman would have no idea
either. What the heck does "P1" stand for?

Pacman shouldn't get bandaid on top of hack on top of kludge in order
to make up for developers that come up with their own number
versioning system. If it's a newer version, give it a higher version
number. Anything with letters or other characters is not at all
obvious.

Scott

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