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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
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To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
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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 =E2=80=9C@=E2=80=9D a version string=
 prefix.  Since
>> versions are arbitrary strings =E2=80=9C4.1=E2=80=9D is considered a val=
id prefix of
>> =E2=80=9C4.13=E2=80=9D.  If a user supplied the version string =E2=80=9C=
4.1.=E2=80=9D they would get the
>> appropriate package.

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

Basically =E2=80=98version-prefix?=E2=80=99 splits a version string at dots=
 and compares
whole components.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.