How to depend on a variant (or do I want subports)?

[Chris Jones]

Hi,

> AIUI, the tilde affects version comparison in the dpkg world so that
> 1.2.0~beta1 is considered older than 1.2.0. Our vercmp proc doesn't
> support anything like that.

That's exactly what I would have thought/expected. That the beta1 release is considered older than the non-beta release. To me, 1.2.0-beta1 (or 1.2.0~beta1) is a beta release in the run up to a final 1.2.0 release, so therefore older.

Cheer Chris

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