On Aug 24 06:25, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On Thu, 2015-08-20 at 12:37 +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote: > > The idea that we need different way of sorting version strings for > > different packages seems really strange. > > > > Does any other distro have something like this? How do linux distros > > handle the special version number sorting requirements that perl > > apparently has? > > On Fedora, some Perl packages add extra dots to the package version so > that they sort as expected, e.g.: > > 0.23 => 0.23 > 0.2301 => 0.23.01 > 0.24 => 0.24 > etc.
So, shouldn't we do the same? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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