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support the special '~' character in our version parser

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From: Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>, 60725 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#60725: guix lint thinks 2019111-0.7e76d75 is older than 20191111
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 14:24:32 +0100

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Guix,
>
> If you run 'guix lint emacs-enh-ruby-mode', it'll print this:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> emacs-enh-ruby-mode <at> 2019111-0.7e76d75: can be upgraded to 20191111
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
In this particular case, 2019111 seems to have been a typo in the first
place.  (It misses out on a '1' in our package record).

AFAIK, any sane versioning scheme would assert that 20191111 > 2019111-anything.

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