Bug#809604: [Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#809604: Regressions in latest uscan release (mangle rules?)

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Osamu Aoki wrote:
> New prioritizing mechanism xz > bz2 > gz > zip by adding sufiix to
> version as index string is causing this problem.

Ah, that's the reason for these strange suffixes. Thanks for the
explanation! :-)

> > Please also notice the different sorting of 0.9pre6 _behind_ 0.9pre.
> > It seems as if the new uscan version sorts wrongly if there are two
> > versions of which one is just a leading substring of the other. Adding
> > ".1" doesn't seem to make sense to me if the dot is sorted before any
> > number.
> 
> Let me think this over my vacation :-)

:-)

> It looks to me adding .+0 .+1 .+2 .+3 instead of .0 .1 .2 .3 seems to
> avoid this problem.

I don't think so. Because the first added character is still a dot.
Adding +0 +1 +2 etc. instead of .0 .1 .2 etc. may work better, but is
probably not completely sane either.

I generally would not try to squeeze suffix preference into the
version comparison itself, but do the suffix ordering in a separate
dimension, e.g. first sort by version and if there's more than one
file for the newest version, then sort them by suffix priority.

		Regards, Axel
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