Bug#494158: [grub2] update-grub: uses wrong ordering algorithm (sorts 1.2.3-foo before 1.2.3.1-foo)

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 05:16:21PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> 
> So for lenny we just use the one you already made, with one little
> change I suggest:
> 
>         a=`echo $a | sed -e "s/~test/~atest/"`
>         b=`echo $b | sed -e "s/~test/~atest/"`

I'm not very concerned with distinguishing priorities other than what goes
before and after the empty string.  I'd rather just put all those known
suffixes below the empty string and not care about their relative weights,
for the sake of simplicity.

So if there are no objections, I'd like to check in the patch I sent (with
the greedy 'g' as you suggest) and upload that.

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