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

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From: Ian Jackson <ijackson <at> chiark.greenend.org.uk>
To: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
Cc: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org, Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
Subject: Re: bug#35939: version sort is incorrect with hyphen-minus
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 21:09:14 +0100

Assaf Gordon writes ("Re: bug#35939: version sort is incorrect with hyphen-minus"):
> Thanks for the report and the clear details.

Hi.  I haven't read the original report, but everything you say about
the behaviour of GNU coreutils and dpkg sounds correct.

This is perhaps an unfortunate wrinkle but I think it is right of
coreutils to use the "upstream part" of the dpkg algorithm.

> I hope this helps explain the differences (I also hope this explanation is
> correct, and I invite others to chime in).

I wonder if this could go in some manual somewhere.

Regards,
Ian.

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