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Date:      Thu, 19 Apr 2001 12:32:16 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Akinori MUSHA <knu@iDaemons.org>, Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/vim6 Makefile distinfo pkg-plist
Message-ID:  <20010419123216.A53260@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010419122255.B29435@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:22:56PM -0700
References:  <200104111956.f3BJukl93003@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010419140501.A253@jive.44bsd.net> <8666g0d8ws.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> <20010419122255.B29435@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:22:56PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:

> Question, why haven't someone brought this up before?  I've done the
> letter thing for a long time now.

Not many people understand the full ins and outs of the version number
algorithm in corner cases like versions with letters in them (I
don't).

We need a tool people can use to verify whether port version X is
lower than port version Y, when they're committing an upgrade from X
to Y which is named strangely (i.e. not simply 1.2.3.4 etc)

Kris

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