Subject: Re: bug#60725: guix lint thinks 2019111-0.7e76d75 is older than 20191111

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 13:59:57 -0500

Hi,

Jelle Licht <[email-masked]> writes:

> Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> retitle 60725 support the special '~' character in our version parser
>> thanks
>>
>> Jelle Licht <[email-masked]> writes:

[...]

>> That's not currently the case with Guix.  Guix package version strings
>> are documented has having the requirement to be 'monotonically
>> increasing', so '43.rc3' as used by GNOME is seen by Guix as newer than
>> '43', the final release.
>
> I agree with your assesment, but note that my example (again) had one
> "1" less, in which case Guix does the right thing :-).

Ah! I failed to correctly read that version number again, eh!

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Thanks,
Maxim