Re: upset, genini: different version ordering

[Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>]

On 18/08/2015 19:34, Achim Gratz wrote:
> > I've just found that upset and genini will order versions differently.
>
> Here's a patch for genini that will take care of the versions in a
> better way than before, and it's extensible (in genini) and configurable
> (from setup.hint) if you're into that kind of thing.  It's also largely
> compatible to how upset treats things, to the extent that I understand
> what upset is doing.  The code in genini should be able to be integrated
> into upset to have both tools share their world-view, since I fixed some
> things that bothered me about upset along the way (treatment of
> pre-releases, mostly).  It'll need a bit more polishing, but keep the
> comments coming.

The idea that we need different way of sorting version strings for 
different packages seems really strange.

Does any other distro have something like this?  How do linux distros 
handle the special version number sorting requirements that perl 
apparently has?