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support the special '~' character in our version parser

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Message #19 received at 60725 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org>
Cc: 60725 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, GNU Debbugs <control <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#60725: guix lint thinks 2019111-0.7e76d75 is older than
 20191111
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 13:59:57 -0500

Hi,

Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org> writes:

> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> retitle 60725 support the special '~' character in our version parser
>> thanks
>>
>> Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org> 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!

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

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