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bug#37556: gpg "-unknown" version string
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#37556: gpg "-unknown" version string |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:09:36 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> writes:
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>>> I don't understand why making -unknown equivalent to a lesser version
>>> makes sense. Shouldn't 2.2.17 and 2.2.17-unknown in fact be equal?
>>
>> Should they? 2.2.17-pre and 2.2.17-alpha should be less than 2.2.17,
>> but how do we know that -unknown isn't something -alpha-ish?
>
> It's "unknown", so it could be something opposite-of-alpha-ish too,
> right? On average, 0 seems right.
That's possible. Does anybody know how usual these -unknown things are,
and why they exist?
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