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Hi there, |
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as I was rewriting the code used for verifying and comparing versions I |
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noticed a case that's not covered in the docs, let's use the example |
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where foo has the following versions available: |
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foo-1.0b |
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foo-1.0.1 |
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Now the question is: Which version is considered newer? |
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As I had no idea and though that we didn't have this case in the tree I |
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started a small poll in #gentoo-dev and achieved a 4:0 vote for foo-1.0b |
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being newer than foo-1.0.1, so I went on and implemented it this way. |
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Now while testing I noticed that a) current code handles this the other |
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direction and b) we actually have 2 packages that are affected by this: |
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app-arch/arj and media-video/kavi2svcd. |
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So I'm sending this mail to get some more opinions about this. If anyone |
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is curious, the actual code and test scripts are on bug #37406. |
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Marius |
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Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
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In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be |
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Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |
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