On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:43:43AM -0700, Clifford Beshers wrote:
> I've always thought of that as a last resort, when the versioning gets messed
> up.  Is that not the case?

Not really.  The basic use case is release candidates or beta.  
As an example, if upstream releases a version 1.0rc1, it is in fact 
earlier than 1.0.  The former gets translated into 1.0~rc1-1 with the 
new tilde operator, and is indeed sorted before 1.0-1.

Regards,
-- 
Jérémy

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