Subject: bug#37556: gpg "-unknown" version string

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:09:36 +0200

Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>>> I don't understand why making -unknown equivalent to a lesser version
>>> makes sense.  Shouldn't 2.2.17 and 2.2.17-unknown in fact be equal?
>>
>> Should they?  2.2.17-pre and 2.2.17-alpha should be less than 2.2.17,
>> but how do we know that -unknown isn't something -alpha-ish?
>
> It's "unknown", so it could be something opposite-of-alpha-ish too,
> right?  On average, 0 seems right.

That's possible.  Does anybody know how usual these -unknown things are,
and why they exist?

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