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List:       opensuse-packaging
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-packaging] Python package with a ! in the version numbe?
From:       Jan Engelhardt <jengelh () inai ! de>
Date:       2016-07-29 22:26:14
Message-ID: alpine.LSU.2.20.1607300012430.18375 () nerf40 ! vanv ! qr
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On Friday 2016-07-29 23:42, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>On Friday 2016-07-29 23:14, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>
>>In this case, the package is version 1!1.4 (not a typo). (Raw version 1-1.4)
>
>>Should I force the version to 1~1.4 instead of 1!1.4 ?
>
>Only if "1!1.4" comes before "1" in whatever weird versioning scheme 
>your particular upstream has.

U-huh. The previous version of efilter seems to have been
"1438631774", so the property the '!' character exhibits on the
pypi.python.org site's sorting algorithm appears to be

 1! > 1

That is something like the complement of tilde versions (1 > 1~).

Seems like an interesting future addition to rpm for version number
downgrades (without using the dreaded Epoch field ;-)
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