On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 07:42:24PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Also, while Debian uses a sane, consistent version numbering system it
> is not safe to make assumptions about what non-Debian developers do.
The best thing I can say about Debian's version strings is that they
are documented.
unicorn:~$ grep ^Version:
/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_bullseye_main_binary-amd64_Packages
| awk '{print length($0), $0}' | sort -rn | sed 's/.* //' | head
1.31~pre0.8052aabdd159bc9050e7dc264f33782c5acce05f-1.1
0.0~git20201031.beca652+really.git20200323.1b35463-2
0.0~git20201031.beca652+really.git20200323.1b35463-2
7.3.3+dfsg1-1+0.0~git20210225.1e7ef9e+dfsg-4
3.0.7+git.20130130.97b34ece.REALLY.1.0.3-2.1
0.16.1+20180422git6becd92d7fce3fc411d7c-4+b3
6.1.0~1.1.0+~2.0.1~ds+~6.1.0+~0~20180821-1
2.0.1~1.1.0+~2.0.1~ds+~6.1.0+~0~20180821-1
1.4.0~rc1+git347-gfc4cb6fc7+dfsg-1+deb11u1
1.1.0~1.1.0+~2.0.1~ds+~6.1.0+~0~20180821-1
Every single piece of that line noise has some meaning... to someone. ;-)
