[arch-general] Pacman behaviour comparing numerical versions for package upgrades

[Cédric Girard]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:

> pacman sees 1.5000 as being newer than 1.51 as 5000 > 51.  So that
> warning is correct, because only perl package versioning thinks that
> 5000 < 51 ...
>

I suggest you to have a look at this thread as well:
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2011-February/013512.html

Regards,
-- 
Cédric Girard