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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