Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.23 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello,
I've expanded the dpkg man page section on --compare-versions as follows: --compare-versions ver1 op ver2 ... ... These are provided only for compatibility with control file syntax: < << <= = >= >> >, are deprecated and should not be used, due to confusing semantics. To illustrate: 0.1 < 0.1 evaluates as true. You can find the respective commit here: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/tpo/dpkg.git/commit/?id=83a79497628da68d4d96ba22233b0b1ea2dceb82 And can pull from here: git://git.debian.org/users/tpo/dpkg.git I've spend an hour or two before figuring out, that it was the weird '<' '>' semantics that is "broken". So I'd be glad if you could include more explicit documentation of the problem and spare others wasting their time debuging the fallout of these particular semantics. Please pull. Thanks, *t -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_CH.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-7+b2 ii libc6 2.19-13 ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3 ii libselinux1 2.3-2 ii tar 1.27.1-2+b1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 1.0.9.6 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org