Bug#493389: update-grub: uses wrong ordering algorithm (sorts 1.2.3-foo before 1.2.3.1-foo)

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 11:33:33PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Aug 2008, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 10:12:48AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > There is absolutely NO reason for a human to accept that 1.2.3.1-foo is a
> > > LOWER version number than 1.2.3-foo, simply because it is not.
> > 
> > Okay, I must have gotten the situation wrong then.
> > 
> > > Why don't you guys get the algorithm from apt/dpkg instead of reinventing
> > > the wheel?  Granted, you may want to simplify it since you won't need epochs
> > > or "~", but you don't have to find clever ways to implement version sorting
> > > from the ground up.
> > 
> > Sounds fine. Could you send us a patch to call dpkg --compare-versions from the
> > script?
> 
> Why would you want something in /sbin to call something in /usr/s?bin ?
> 
> You need to port the algorithm.

update-grub is in /usr.

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