[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#996427: Bug#996427: Bug#996427: node-mermaid: ships a copy of /usr/share/nodejs/crypto-random-string/*, already in node-crypto-random-string

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2021-10-15 12:44:39)
> Quoting Nilesh Patra (2021-10-15 12:34:46)
> > On 10/15/21 2:02 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > Quoting Nilesh Patra (2021-10-15 10:13:15)
> > >> $ dpkg --compare-versions 8.13.2+ds+~cs26.13.21 lt 8.13.2+ds+~cs30.13.21 && echo true
> > >> true
> > >>
> > >> So, what should be done then?
> > >> @Yadd, team, ideas?
> > > 
> > > Bump delimiter to +ds2
> > 
> > Thanks, but...
> > 
> > $ dpkg --compare-versions 8.13.2+ds2+~cs26.13.21 lt 8.13.2+ds+~cs30.13.21 && echo true
> > true
> > 
> > This one is still less, not sure why. Any other good permutation you could think of?
> 
> Ah, right - I ran into that myself once¹: You cannot elegantly bump from 
> unnumbered to numbered when followed by "+" - that's yet another 
> argument for using ~ instead of + whenever possible.
> 
> Less elegant: change delimiter from ds to dx2

...and then change again to the more elegant ds1 when main upstream version changes.


 - Jonas

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