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version sort is incorrect with hyphen-minus

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Message #35 received at 35939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 35939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>,
 Ian Jackson <ijackson <at> chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Subject: Re: bug#35939: version sort is incorrect with hyphen-minus
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 11:36:40 +0200

On 2019-06-26 18:40:50 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Perhaps the coreutils manual could be improved to make this all clearer, and
> perhaps it should refer to the Debian manual if it doesn't already.

In this case, there should be a new ordering option to provide
true numeric sort with strings mixing non-negative integers and
characters.

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