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FS#21237 - Pacman incorrectly evaluates letters in package version

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Dan Vratil (progdan) - Wednesday, 13 October 2010, 19:59 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Wednesday, 13 October 2010, 20:06 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.4.1
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I just got this message from pacman:

warning: proftpd: local (1.3.3-5) is newer than extra (1.3.3b-1)

Which is obviously incorrect. Seems to me that pacman ignores the letter in version and therefor it considers local package newer.
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Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Wednesday, 13 October 2010, 20:06 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:  We have like 6 reports already.
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Wednesday, 13 October 2010, 20:06 GMT
Fucking hell, can we look around first? It is not *obviously* anything. One person interprets the 'b' as beta, while the next person does it like OpenSSL and uses it as a patch level. The behavior, and this *exact* case, is clearly stated in the manpage:

When upgrading, pacman performs version comparison to determine which packages need upgrading. This behavior operates as follows:

Alphanumeric:
1.0a < 1.0alpha < 1.0b < 1.0beta < 1.0p < 1.0pre < 1.0rc < 1.0
Numeric:
1 < 1.0 < 1.1 < 1.1.1 < 1.2 < 2.0 < 3.0.0
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Wednesday, 13 October 2010, 20:08 GMT
And sorry for my attitude, but we just have a lot of these. I understand the problem, we have potential patches to make it better, but the "obviously incorrect" comment pushes my buttons.

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