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[linux, DEB] Version strings "5.0.LINUX..." and "5.0.1.LINUX..." confuse the installer (GDebi) #254

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install PEAZIP        5.0.LINUX.GTK2-2
2. Try to install PEAZIP 5.0.1.LINUX.GTK2-2 (wich obviously is newer) with GDebi

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
PEAZIP 5.0.1.LINUX.GTK2-2 installed
I see a message like "a newer version is already installed"

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Deb packages : 5.0 and 5.0.1

Please provide any additional information below.
I very highly guess that string comparaison gives :
 "5.0.LINUX.GTK2-2" > "5.0.1.LINUX.GTK2-2" and causes 5.0.1 to be refused to install
Very obvious, isn't it ?

As a workaround :
remove current Peazip (5.0) by "sudo apt-get remove peazip"
and install PEAZIP 5.0.1.LINUX.GTK2-2

By the way, I notice that uninstaller wants to remove 
"/usr/local/share/applications" which I think is bad, fortunately a non-empty 
dir won't be removed (by apt).

Greatest regards

Original issue reported on code.google.com by MM.tsu...@gmail.com on 1 Aug 2013 at 1:23

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Thank you for reporting, I'll move to fixed x.y.z naming convention (major 
version, minor version, revision) consistently for all packages from next 
release, so i.e. 5.1 string in package name will be 5.1.0.

Original comment by giorgio.tani.software@gmail.com on 1 Aug 2013 at 1:36

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Naming convention changed in 5.1.0 to fixed scheme major.minor.revision to 
avoid this issue.

Original comment by giorgio.tani.software@gmail.com on 1 Sep 2013 at 6:13

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
You wrote somwhere that version string is 5 bytes.
Do you mean that your max version is 15.15.15 ? It is a very annoying detail.
Regards

Original comment by MM.tsu...@gmail.com on 3 Sep 2013 at 7:50

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
version string is now alway 5 bytes (digits, characters) long, x.y.z, e.g. 
5.1.0 instead of 5.1 - before, it was 3 characters long for minor releases and 
5 for revisions, e.g 3 characters 5.0 followed by 5 characters 5.0.1, which was 
confusing for some package managers.

Original comment by giorgio.tani.software@gmail.com on 3 Sep 2013 at 10:26