upset, genini: different version ordering

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On Thu, 2015-08-20 at 12:37 +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> The idea that we need different way of sorting version strings for 
> different packages seems really strange.
> 
> Does any other distro have something like this?  How do linux distros
> handle the special version number sorting requirements that perl 
> apparently has?

On Fedora, some Perl packages add extra dots to the package version so
that they sort as expected, e.g.:

0.23 => 0.23
0.2301 => 0.23.01
0.24 => 0.24
etc.

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Yaakov