Re: 0.01-6 > 0.1-3 ?????

2002-04-22 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Il lun, 2002-04-22 alle 16:18, Rune B. Broberg ha scritto: [snip] > 0.9 compared to 0.89 would then be the same as 0.90 compared to 0.89? > Not good. NO. 0.9 < 0.89 because 89 > 9. -- Federico Di Gregorio Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact[EMAIL PROTECTED] INIT.D Develope

Re: 0.01-6 > 0.1-3 ?????

2002-04-22 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 04:18:21PM +0200, Rune B. Broberg wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:58:21AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > > Many developers don't consider those identical, though. I wonder if > > fields should be zero-padded to equal width before comparison? So > > comparing 0.01 and 0.1,

Re: 0.01-6 > 0.1-3 ?????

2002-04-22 Thread Rune B. Broberg
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:58:21AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Agustin Martin Domingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > point in versions is not decimal separator, but major or minor version > > separator. So > > > > 0.1 == 0.01 == 0.1 > > > > all means > > > > major version=0 > > first minor

Re: 0.01-6 > 0.1-3 ?????

2002-04-22 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:58:21AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Agustin Martin Domingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > point in versions is not decimal separator, but major or minor version > > separator. So > > 0.1 == 0.01 == 0.1 > > all means > > major version=0 > > first minor version=1 > Ma

Re: 0.01-6 > 0.1-3 ?????

2002-04-22 Thread Alan Shutko
Agustin Martin Domingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > point in versions is not decimal separator, but major or minor version > separator. So > > 0.1 == 0.01 == 0.1 > > all means > > major version=0 > first minor version=1 Many developers don't consider those identical, though. I wonder if fi

Re: 0.01-6 > 0.1-3 ?????

2002-04-22 Thread Randolph Chung
> What exactly do you mean by numerically? Is 0.1 == 0.01 == 0.1 == > 1.0 == 10 == 10? What should be watched out for? >From the debian policy manual (section 4): "The strings are compared from left to right. First the initial part of each string consisting entirely of non-digit charac

Re: 0.01-6 > 0.1-3 ?????

2002-04-22 Thread Agustin Martin Domingo
Alan Shutko wrote: > > Federico Di Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > that's right. dpkg compares numbers ... numerically. so 0.01 and 0.1 are > > equivalent. then -6 > -3. > > What exactly do you mean by numerically? Is 0.1 == 0.01 == 0.1 == > 1.0 == 10 == 10? What should be w

Re: 0.01-6 > 0.1-3 ?????

2002-04-22 Thread Sean Neakums
commence Alan Shutko quotation: > Federico Di Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> that's right. dpkg compares numbers ... numerically. so 0.01 and >> 0.1 are equivalent. then -6 > -3. > > What exactly do you mean by numerically? Leading zeroes after the decimal point are ignored, by the lo

Re: 0.01-6 > 0.1-3 ?????

2002-04-22 Thread Alan Shutko
Federico Di Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > that's right. dpkg compares numbers ... numerically. so 0.01 and 0.1 are > equivalent. then -6 > -3. What exactly do you mean by numerically? Is 0.1 == 0.01 == 0.1 == 1.0 == 10 == 10? What should be watched out for? -- Alan Shutko <[E

Re: 0.01-6 > 0.1-3 ?????

2002-04-22 Thread Ivo Timmermans
Daniel Ruoso wrote: > Hi, i'm creating the cvs-autoreleasedeb package, and the version is > growing, so I started at 0.01-1 and now I'm on 0.1-3. But when I tried > to install it i received the following warning: Call it 0.10-3. Ivo -- Norton SystemWorks 2002 includes a file erasure pr

Re: 0.01-6 > 0.1-3 ?????

2002-04-22 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Il lun, 2002-04-22 alle 13:51, Daniel Ruoso ha scritto: > dpkg - aviso: rebaixando cvs-autoreleasedeb de 0.01-6 para 0.1-3. that's right. dpkg compares numbers ... numerically. so 0.01 and 0.1 are equivalent. then -6 > -3. -- Federico Di Gregorio Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contac

0.01-6 > 0.1-3 ?????

2002-04-22 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Hi, i'm creating the cvs-autoreleasedeb package, and the version is growing, so I started at 0.01-1 and now I'm on 0.1-3. But when I tried to install it i received the following warning: Did I miss something? dpkg - warning: downgrading cvs-autoreleasedeb from 0.01-6 to 0.1-3. -- signature.as

0.01-6 > 0.1-3 ?????

2002-04-22 Thread Daniel Ruoso
dpkg - aviso: rebaixando cvs-autoreleasedeb de 0.01-6 para 0.1-3. -- Atenciosamente, Daniel Ruoso Desenvolvimento de Sistemas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oktiva Telecomunicações e Informática -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED