[pacman-dev] vercmp discussion

[Xavier]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> You do realize you just broke openssh version numbering
>
> Here is my vote for the best order:
> 1.0alpha < 1.0beta < 1.0pre < 1.0rc < 1.0 < 1.0a < 1.0b < 1.0c
>

I think I just restored the old behavior, what we had before is :
1.0a < 1.0alpha < 1.0b < 1.0beta < 1.0c < 1.0pre < 1.0rc < 1.0

And as far as I can see, it never caused problems to openssh.
Both old and new behaviors worked fine with it, because we always had :
4.3p1 < 4.3p2 < 4.4p1

According to the cvs history :
http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/core/support/openssh/PKGBUILD?root=core&view=log
and the source archives :
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/
the scheme was always X.Y[.Z]pN .

Now, maybe 1.0alpha < 1.0beta < 1.0pre < 1.0rc < 1.0 < 1.0a < 1.0b <
1.0c would be better, but we never had this behavior, and implementing
would be (much?) more complex than what we have now.