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  1. Bug #484017
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 484017

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 484017] [NEW] error on version numbers < that in the packaging

On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 23:28 +0000, James Westby wrote:
> On Sun Nov 22 22:25:49 UTC 2009 Robert Collins wrote:
> > I'm 99% sure the toolchain will fail if you try this.
>
> Something will fail if you have a changelog where the version numbers aren't
> in strict descending order? Any clues as to what, as I'm pretty sure things
> don't as I do this fairly often myself.

dpkg-genchanges and dpkg-parsechangelog assume that the log is totally
sorted in dpkg-compareversion AFAIK. I haven't actually checked the code
myself though, so there could be a propogating rumour problem here.

-Rob