On Sun, 9 May 2004, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hi, > > The use of a starting letter in the version of cup and cup-devel is > inconsistent with any other package in the distribution. This > exception is a pita when using scripts to sort rpms by version. > > Could we please restrict letters in the version and release to be > positioned after one or more numbers? Sorting rpm's without using rpm's own version comparison algorithm is guaranteed to break at some point, better use rpm-python bindings for such tasks. Doesn't mean sticking to sane version numbers isn't a good thing, 'v10k' should indeed be sanitized anyway. - Panu -
