From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>, 37556@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37556: gpg "-unknown" version string
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:09:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgoc8y67.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85ftkdkfjv.fsf@gmail.com> (Noam Postavsky's message of "Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:46:28 -0400")
Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> writes:
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>>> I don't understand why making -unknown equivalent to a lesser version
>>> makes sense. Shouldn't 2.2.17 and 2.2.17-unknown in fact be equal?
>>
>> Should they? 2.2.17-pre and 2.2.17-alpha should be less than 2.2.17,
>> but how do we know that -unknown isn't something -alpha-ish?
>
> It's "unknown", so it could be something opposite-of-alpha-ish too,
> right? On average, 0 seems right.
That's possible. Does anybody know how usual these -unknown things are,
and why they exist?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-01 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-29 22:59 bug#37556: gpg "-unknown" version string Juanma Barranquero
2019-09-30 5:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-30 7:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-30 7:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-09-30 8:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-30 9:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-09-30 14:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-30 14:25 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-09-30 14:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-30 14:46 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-10-01 12:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-10-01 14:59 ` Kazuhiro Ito
2019-10-13 3:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-13 5:12 ` Juanma Barranquero
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