Adam Borowski
2018-09-24 19:28:44 UTC
Unless it has some other reasons than just "lower version".
This causes a ton of headaches for the archive software. IIRC, I believedak is rather unhappy about version numbers going backwards, and of course
apt is going to have no idea what to do for a system that already has the
previous package installed. [...] Version numbers should be monotonically
increasing, and I think it's reasonable for a lot of software to bake in
the assumption that's the case.
dpkg and apt to version 2147483647:zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... might be a lot of
fun. TODO: check what's the longest allowed version length.
(More seriously: with two techniques for non-monotonic versions, we don't
need a third one.)
Meow!
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