[Neurodebian-upstream] Debian Version Strings

[Sebastian Eichelbaum]

After reading the corresponding manual pages sent by Yury, I experimented with dpkg --compare-version. Now the concept of "~" and "+" as some kind of sorting delimiter is clear. Thank you!

Cheers
Sebastian

On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Michael Hanke wrote:

> 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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