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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: 28446-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28446: linux-libre@4.1 should select 4.1.x, not 4.13.x
Date: Sun, 13 May 2018 13:31:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zi13lrlv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vak6gk60.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Tue, 26 Sep 2017 00:26:15 -0400")

Hello,

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>>> Currently, the package specification "linux-libre@4.1" selects version
>>> 4.13.  It should instead select version 4.1.
>>
>> We consider everthing following the “@” a version string prefix.  Since
>> versions are arbitrary strings “4.1” is considered a valid prefix of
>> “4.13”.  If a user supplied the version string “4.1.” they would get the
>> appropriate package.

I pushed a fix that I think does what we want as
348987d3d12ebaf11fdbcc3dbd56585e7d69a1f5.

Basically ‘version-prefix?’ splits a version string at dots and compares
whole components.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

      reply	other threads:[~2018-05-13 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-13 15:07 bug#28446: linux-libre@4.1 should select 4.1.x, not 4.13.x Mark H Weaver
2017-09-21 12:48 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-09-22  1:53   ` Chris Marusich
2017-09-22  8:04     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-09-26  4:26   ` Mark H Weaver
2018-05-13 11:31     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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