[arch-general] Package versioning

[Doug Newgard]

On Fri, 02 Sep 2016 11:03:50 +0200
Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:

> Doug Newgard <scimmia at archlinux.info> writes:
> > Sounds like <version>.x<xrev> would make more sense.  
> 
> Yes, it looks like it would work better. Is there some description of
> what the presence of a letter actually means?
> 
> /M
> 

Simply put, letters are less than numbers. This means that
haskell-vector-algorithms, for example, would go from 0.7.x<something> to
0.7.0<something>. That will be seen as an upgrade.