[PATCH 0/5] rmpvercmp split + updates

[Dan Nicholson]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at err.no> wrote:
> ]] Dan Nicholson
>
>> Here are some patches to make rpmvercmp easier to compare with upstream
>> and to catch up to recent changes. Moving the code to a separate file
>> makes sense so that it's not intertwined with pkg-config code and the
>> formatting can be made consistent with upstream. The diff to upstream is
>> quite small after these changes. The last patch might not want to be
>> applied right now since it represents a change to the pkg-config
>> metadata syntax.
>
> I am happy with the ~ as a less-than-null-string separator, so I'd be
> happy to see that go in.
>
> Apart from that, looks reasonable to me, so please apply. :-)

Yeah, I certainly like the feature. I've just been trying to avoid
changing the metadata since there's no means to handle compatibility
now. I actually opened a bug about the spec and started working on it
yesterday.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63747

I wonder if it isn't worth waiting to get the current behavior spec'd.

--
Dan