Re: Release rules Was: Re: [Monotone-devel] conflicts store vs show_conflicts

[Hendrik Boom]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 05:28:23PM -0600, Timothy Brownawell wrote:
> On 11/22/2010 09:43 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> This if we add ~dev7 to version number 1.1, we'll get version 1.1~dev7,
>> which will sort before version 1.1
>>
>> This sounds like the numbering system we're looking for.
>>
>> Of course, this isn't the *entire* comparison alrorithm. There's also
>> an epoch and a Debian-specific attachment to the verison number.  Check
>> the link above for further details.
>
> Yep, that would be ideal except it looks like rpm-based distros don't  
> support it.

Maybe we should log a bug against rpm itself.

-- hendrik