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On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 02:47:14AM -0800, jrodman@xxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx wrote: >Perhaps I have been poisoned by dpkg, but the sort order of such a >version number seems obvious to me. I suppose it might be wrong though. I still take the approach that if you're going to call it a "number" it should only have one decimal point in it, and no letters or punctuation. >I can't put my finger on why I hate build numbers so much. They're what happened when version numbers got taken over by the marketing department, and then later someone noticed that being able to distinguish between different minor versions of the same software was still useful. RThere's stuff above here
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