[Bug manual/20524] strverscmp is inconsistent

[peda at lysator dot liu.se]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20524

--- Comment #8 from Peter Rosin <peda at lysator dot liu.se> ---
No, you read the history wrong, bug 9913 was first "fixed" with the
commit I pointed at previously. That commit in turn broke transitivity
when it also attempted to "Optimize size of tables", and was subsequently
fixed a few weeks later [1] (as a result of comment #2 from Jakub).

The real meat of the change committed for bug 9913 can be seen in the patch
in the original bug description, it is only changing a LEN to a CMP. This is
the same class of change that I'm proposing; a sort order change for
fractions.

The question still stands, why was it OK to change sort order in 2009 but
not now?

[1]
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=4bcb2658ff02d72aa83640cf76ac65a430f17004

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