[Neurodebian-upstream] Debian Version Strings

[Michael Hanke]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 05:35:16PM +0200, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 17:20 +0200, Sebastian Eichelbaum wrote:
> > The suggestion of lintian is to use 1.3.0~rc1+hg5767 but I do not know
> > whether this is what I intend it to because I do not know the meaning
> > of + and ~ completely.
> 
> Sorry, I missed this last part. The suggestion of lintian is correct, go
> ahead and follow it:
> 
> 1.3.0~rc1+hg576 < 1.3.0~rc1+hg666 < 1.3.0~rc2 < 1.3.0~rc2+hg777 < 1.3.0
> 
> Look at other packages conversioning patterns when in doubt.

You can always verify version order with

	dpkg --compare-versions

Cheers,

Michael

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