upset, genini: different version ordering

[Jon TURNEY]

On 20/07/2015 19:03, Achim Gratz wrote:
>
> I've just found that upset and genini will order versions differently.
> For perl-Carp, genini produces:
>
> version: 1.36-1
> [prev]
> version: 1.3301-2
>
> while upset comes up with:
>
> version: 1.3301-2
> [prev]
> version: 1.36-1
>
> For the way Perl distributions are versioned, genini is correct here
> (although it would fail when a distribution switches from x.y.z
> versioning to canonical x.y versioning as PDL has done in the past).
>
> Upset seems to order based on the individual parts in the split version
> string?  In any case, at least for Perl distributions it should rather
> use version objects.
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~jpeacock/version-0.9912/lib/version.pod

If I recall correctly, genini is just broken, doing some kind of lexical 
sort which e.g. sorts 1.10 before 1.9.