Re: Debian versioning question

2023-10-12 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 11:52:30PM +0200, Preuße, Hilmar wrote: > The upstream minor versions are always determined by letters, so I'm unsure > how to make clear that 1.3.8a+ is later than 1.3.8+. Any hints? This is a real sad interaction between the letters and the + in this case. Clearly the bes

Debian versioning question

2023-10-12 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
Hello, dumb question. Currently the vcswatch for proftpd-dfsg [1] reports: "OLD: VCS is behind the version in the archive: 1.3.8a+dfsg-1 < 1.3.8+dfsg-8." According to deb-version(7) this is absolutely correct: First the initial part of each string consisting entirely of non-digit character