David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost> writes: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 07:00:23PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > > That is, except for in pkgsrc, which is why I still > > have a (very mild) concern about that one - it actually compares the > > version numbers using its (until it gets changed) "Dewey" comparison > > routines, and for those, 9.99.100 is uncharted territory. > > No, it's not, pkgsrc-Dewey is well defined on arbitrarily large > numbers. In fact, that's in some sense the whole point of it relative > to using fixed-width fields. And, surely we had 9.99.9 and 9.99.10. The third digit is no more special than the second. It's just that it happens less often so the problem of arguably incorrectly written two-digit patterns is more likely than for that to happen with one. It's not reasonable to constrain a normal process because other bugs might exist.
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