[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 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


 - Jonas


¹ I seems to recall that I filed a bug against uscan for that, but 
possibly I only sloppily discussed it on a list somewhere...

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