Ports with version numbers going backwards: print/pdflib, print/pdflib-perl

[Doug Barton]

Erwin Lansing wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:48:14AM +0200, Alex Dupre wrote:
>> Erwin Lansing ha scritto:
>>> $ pkg_version -t 7.0.0p1 7.0.0_1
>>>
>>> It's not.
>> I know that 7.0.0p1 is major than 7.0.0_1. What I'm asking is if it 
>> really matters, since nobody could download the 7.0.0p1, so they sticked 
>> with plain 7.0.0. If it's an issue for automated scripts I will fix it.
>>
> Automated scripts have no knowledge that this might be an exception
> because the previous version wasn't installed anywhere. This is an
> assumption they have to make, so yes, please fix it.

If the previous version that a user could actually install was lower 
than the current version, I don't see any reason to jump through hoops 
here.

Doug

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