Hi! Am 19.08.2011 11:01, schrieb IOhannes zmölnig:
>> +dfsg would be preferable over ~dfsg, but you might have good reasons for >> your >> choice? > im using that because in the pkg-multimedia team (where i partake), we > use "~". > > doing a quick stats on my system, i have > 32 $(VER)+dfsg > 28 $(VER)~dfsg > 28 $(VER).dfsg > 5 $(VER)dfsg > 4 $(VER)-dfsg You do know the differences on these version numbers and how to check them, do you? $ dpkg --compare-versions 1~dfsg lt 1 && echo "Is smaller" Is smaller $ dpkg --compare-versions 1+dfsg gt 1 && echo "Is greater" Is greater So the order would be 1~dfsg << 1 << 1+dfsg. You usually use ~ for smaller pre versions and similar, where you have 0.9pre1, and later a 0.9 which should be a higher version number. However, I can't think of a scenario, where ~dfsg makes sense. Best regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e4e2b38.3040...@debian.org
