Bug#410464: update-grub: a.b.c-rcN is sorted before a.b.c final version

[Thue Janus Kristensen]

On 2/10/07, Thue Janus Kristensen <thuejk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually update-grub does have code to do this, but it is buggy. The
> fundamental bug does not seem to be in update-grup, but a simple
> work-around in update-grub can fix it.

On second though, it is just update-grub which is buggy, because of course
 echo $v1 | ...
will strip any trailing spaces from $v1. I had momentarily forgotten
that bash works by replacing strings, not with encapsulated variable
values.

Hilsen Thue