On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 03:23:17PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The other scheme would be to declare a special char '#' that sorts
> lower than everything but \000 and '~'.
> 
> 1.2-3~pre1
> 1.2-3
> 1.2-3#1
> 1.2-3sarge1
> 1.2-3.1
> 
> This would require a dpkg, apt and dak change and could only be used
> post etch. But it looks much better than the other scheme.

If we are going to change dpkg for binNMU we should do it in a way 
such that (= ${Source-Version}) does not break binNMU.
(i.e. dpkg remove the binNMU prefix before doing the test.)

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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