bug#35939: version sort is incorrect with hyphen-minus

[Ian Jackson]

Assaf Gordon writes ("Re: bug#35939: version sort is incorrect with 
hyphen-minus"):
> Thanks for the report and the clear details.

Hi.  I haven't read the original report, but everything you say about
the behaviour of GNU coreutils and dpkg sounds correct.

This is perhaps an unfortunate wrinkle but I think it is right of
coreutils to use the "upstream part" of the dpkg algorithm.

> I hope this helps explain the differences (I also hope this explanation is
> correct, and I invite others to chime in).

I wonder if this could go in some manual somewhere.

Regards,
Ian.

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