On Sun, 9 May 2004, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
Hi,
The use of a starting letter in the version of cup and cup-devel is
inconsistent with any other package in the distribution. This
exception is a pita when using scripts to sort rpms by version.
Could we please restrict letters in the version and release to be
positioned after one or more numbers?
Sorting rpm's without using rpm's own version comparison algorithm is
guaranteed to break at some point, better use rpm-python bindings for such
tasks.
Doesn't mean sticking to sane version numbers isn't a good thing, 'v10k'
should indeed be sanitized anyway.
- Panu -