[pacman-dev] version number parsing broken(?), 3.1901-1 > 3.23-1

[James Rosten]

On Mar 6, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Nagy Gabor wrote:

> Hi!
> Yes, the package maintainer should "correct" the unusual version  
> naming
> by set 3.19.01 or similar as package version.
> Bye, Nagy Gabor
Once again, no right way of doing this.  How do we know if the real  
package version is 3.19.01 and not 3.1.901 or 3.190.1.   This isn't a  
thing pacman should have to take care of; the package itself should  
have a "current" version number.

~ Jamie / yankees26