Ports with version numbers going backwards: devel/ode

Oliver Eikemeier eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com
Sun Jun 27 16:09:56 PDT 2004


Sergey Matveychuk wrote:

> chkversion wrote:
>> - *devel/ode* <dyeske at yahoo.com>: ode-0.5 < ode-0.039
>
> Quite strange. Isn't it? It brakes POLA.

The current sort order is

   0.5 = 0.05 = 0.005 < 0.39 = 0.039 < 0.50 = 0.050 < 0.390 < 0.500

What do you expect?

   0.005 < 0.039 < 0.05 = 0.050 < 0.39 = 0.390 < 0.5 = 0.50 = 0.500

would imply that

   FreeBSD 4.1 = FreeBSD 4.10

or do you have a suggestion of a different sort order that would mandate 
0.039 < 0.5?

-Oliver



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