cup version drop "v"
Panu Matilainen
pmatilai at welho.com
Mon May 10 05:03:28 UTC 2004
On Sun, 9 May 2004, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The use of a starting letter in the version of cup and cup-devel is
> inconsistent with any other package in the distribution. This
> exception is a pita when using scripts to sort rpms by version.
>
> Could we please restrict letters in the version and release to be
> positioned after one or more numbers?
Sorting rpm's without using rpm's own version comparison algorithm is
guaranteed to break at some point, better use rpm-python bindings for such
tasks.
Doesn't mean sticking to sane version numbers isn't a good thing, 'v10k'
should indeed be sanitized anyway.
- Panu -
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