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Re: Whether Revisions should be required

On Sat, 9 Mar 1996, Carl V Streeter wrote:

> Raul Miller writes:
> > 
> > The purpose of revisions, in my opinion, is to impose an order
> > on different instances of a particular package.  
> 
> Mine as well.  I don't see why dftp (which keeps coming up as an example
> in this whole thing) needs to parse diddly out of filenames:
> 
> Get the new packages file, look at the version.  If it's bigger than the
> last one, the file is new.  If a string compare is used, then everything
> just "magically works".  String compares are nice that way.

Err, am I being thick here, or is
   pkg-1.20-9.deb > pkg-1.20-10.deb
and likewise
   image-1.2.9-1.deb > image-1.2.10-1.deb

I t;hink I must have overlooked something, since this would have come up 
ages ago ... oh well ...

Nikhil.