* Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> [100820 17:10]:
> BTW, 9.0.0 is also less than 9.0.0.anything ... so sticking another dot
> in there wouldn't help.
Debian's packaging versions "work around" this with the special ~
character, which they define as sorting *before* nothing, meaning8.4~beta1 < 8.4 < 8.4.0 < 8.4extra
See the deb-version man page for details, a nice convinenct, but yes, a
special cased rule...
But at least it's wildly used ;-)
a.
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