GNU bug report logs - #35939
version sort is incorrect with hyphen-minus

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>

Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 00:55:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: vincent <at> vinc17.net
Cc: 35939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>, Ian Jackson <ijackson <at> chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Subject: bug#35939: version sort is incorrect with hyphen-minus
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:57:14 -0700

GNU sort uses the same algorithm as glibc strverscmp, and this algorithm has 
changed only once since strverscmp was added to glibc in 1997. The change was 
made in 2009, to fix this bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9913

Has the Debian version-comparison algorithm changed since 1997? If so, could you 
give details about the changes to the Debian algorithm? Perhaps glibc should be 
changed to stay consistent with Debian.
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