When packaging Haskell packages there's a bit of a twist to the version numbers that I'm looking for a solution to. Upstream versions have two numbers, a version number (set by the upstream developer) and an "xrev" that's bumped when minor changes are made to packages on Hackage (Haskell's CPAN/PyPi/RubyGems/...). Then the packaging has a release. So far I've been using versions of the form <upstream version>_<xrev>-<pkgrel> But that isn't good enough, `pacman` has for instance reported that's ~~~ warning: haskell-vector-algorithms: local (0.7_1-2) is newer than haskell-core (0.7.0.1_0-1) warning: haskell-monadrandom: local (0.4_2-1) is newer than haskell-core (0.4.1_0-1) ~~~ which isn't correct since 0.7 < 0.7.0.1 0.4 < 0.4.1 It seems `pacman` treats underbar like a period, which isn't at all what I was hoping for. I'm hoping for some help to find something better. Any suggestions on how I should do this properly? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0x927912051716CE39 email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem. — John Tukey
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