On 7/10/21 02:23, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> (info "(coreutils) Differences from the official Debian Algorithm") and
> (info "(coreutils) Minus/Hyphen and Colon characters")
> could mention workarounds, so one could indeed achieve the Debian
> Algorithm.
> Or mention the only way is to use
> dpkg --compare-versions
> (on pairs only.)

Thanks for mentioning that. I looked over the version-sort doc and fixed 
that problem along with some other stuff I noticed while in the 
neighborhood, by installing the attached patch.