PPA Build Error/Tilde In Version

[William Grant]

Will Daniels wrote:
> Hi, I just got the following error from the PPA build system:
> 
> [snip]

> I would have thought 0.3~svn.r90520-1 >= 0.3 or am I confused about the 
> significance of the tilde character in the version? I can't find much 
> about this with Google, perhaps someone can explain to me whether it's a 
> bug or how the version naming works here?  Maybe the problem has to do 
> with the 0.2 in the package name?

'~' < ''. That is, a tilde is less than anything, even an empty string.
Thus, 0.3~svn.r90520-1 < 0.3.

-- 
William Grant
Ubuntu Developer

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