[pacman-dev] [arch-dev] [signoff] openssl 1.0.0a

[Allan McRae]

On 02/06/10 10:43, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:12:45 +1000, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org>
> wrote:
>> vercmp and pacman include the same source file for comparisons so should
>
>> be fine.
>>
>> There might have been a change a while back (3.2 I think) when there
>> were heaps of discussions about version numbers and how they are sorted.
>
>>    At the moment the scheme is the same as what rpm uses (except rpm has
>> epochs to deal with cases like this).
>>
>> Allan
>
> Btw: is this a bug in vercmp?
>
> [pierre at opteron ~]$ vercmp 1.0.0a 1.0.0.a
> 0
> [pierre at opteron ~]$ vercmp 1.0.0 1.0.0.a
> -1
> [pierre at opteron ~]$ vercmp 1.0.0 1.0.0a
> 1
>
> If both versions are equal why aren't they if compared with others?
>

Certainly looks like a bug to me.   Forwarding to pacman-dev

Allan