[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#683130: robust cython version comparisons Was: [Python-apps-team] Bug#683133: xpra: robustify ...

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

Hi Antoine,

NB CCing bug #683130 against bzr with similar issue

sorry for lacking details:

$> python -c 'from Cython.Compiler.Version import version; print(version)'
0.17.beta1

alternatively to manual parsing and ignoring errors you might like to just use

$> python -c 'from distutils.version import LooseVersion as LV; print LV("0.17") < LV("0.17.beta1")' 
True

it is ignorant about suffixes like .beta (thus above result) but is robust
enough in general and should work for your case I guess with min 0.14 version.

NB  StrictVersion is aware of some suffixes but would fail if such as
beta occurs so less advisable to use.

On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, Antoine Martin wrote:

> (snip)
> >ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'beta1'
> You did not post the version string that Debian uses (the one that
> contains 'beta1') so the patch I have merged was only tested against
> the following version strings:
> * 0.16.0
> * 0.16.0.beta1
> * 0.16.beta1
> * 0.16.0beta1
> etc

> Please let me know if this works for you and I'll apply it to the
> stable 0.3.x (which is what debian uses) and 0.4.x branches.
> https://www.xpra.org/trac/changeset/1204

> Cheers
> Antoine
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