GNU bug report logs - #37556
gpg "-unknown" version string

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 23:01:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 27.0.50

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #37 received at 37556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 37556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37556: gpg "-unknown" version string
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:09:36 +0200

Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> 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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