Re: git: 11e51925413b - main - devel/p5-DateTime-Format-MySQL: Update to 0.08

From: Renato Botelho <garga_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 19:01:54 UTC
On 18/08/23 15:52, Joseph Mingrone wrote:
> On Fri, 2023-08-18 at 14:32, Renato Botelho <garga@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 17/08/23 10:37, Joseph Mingrone wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2023-08-17 at 10:15, Renato Botelho <garga@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>>>> On 16/08/23 15:36, Po-Chuan Hsieh wrote:
>>>>> The branch main has been updated by sunpoet:
>>>>> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=11e51925413b7090544d4a4ac449c364717f7e50
>>>>> commit 11e51925413b7090544d4a4ac449c364717f7e50
>>>>> Author:     Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@FreeBSD.org>
>>>>> AuthorDate: 2023-08-16 18:16:29 +0000
>>>>> Commit:     Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@FreeBSD.org>
>>>>> CommitDate: 2023-08-16 18:26:21 +0000
>>>>>        devel/p5-DateTime-Format-MySQL: Update to 0.08
>>>>>             Changes:        https://metacpan.org/dist/DateTime-Format-MySQL/changes
>>>>> ---
>>>>>     devel/p5-DateTime-Format-MySQL/Makefile | 2 +-
>>>>>     devel/p5-DateTime-Format-MySQL/distinfo | 6 +++---
>>>>>     2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>> diff --git a/devel/p5-DateTime-Format-MySQL/Makefile b/devel/p5-DateTime-Format-MySQL/Makefile
>>>>> index 989d481a74d2..f9b0e03be278 100644
>>>>> --- a/devel/p5-DateTime-Format-MySQL/Makefile
>>>>> +++ b/devel/p5-DateTime-Format-MySQL/Makefile
>>>>> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>>>>>     PORTNAME=	DateTime-Format-MySQL
>>>>> -PORTVERSION=	0.0701
>>>>> +PORTVERSION=	0.08
> 
>>>> Hello Po-Chuan!
> 
>>>> 0.08 is smaller than 0.0701 so port version went backwards after this change.
>>> 0.08 is greater than 0.0701, but not according to pkg version.
>>> 	% pkg version -t 0.08 0.0701
>>>           <
> 
>> Actually pkg is correct in this case.  Numerically 8 is smaller than 701.  I tested it on Ubuntu and dpkg --compare-versions has the same result, and I believe any other package management tool will do.
> 
>> What seems to be wrong is the version schema used by this project.  It should be 0.0800 instead of 0.08.
> 
> I didn't mean to suggest that pkg is wrong, but just pointing out that numerically, 0.08, which is equal to 0.0800, is greater than 0.0701.  This could be a source of confusion for anyone who assumes that the comparison of version numbers works the same as comparisons of real numbers.

Right, but I cannot see how could 0.08 be considered equal to 0.0800. 
For me they are clearly different.  I never saw a place where adding 
zeroes on the right side of a number wouldn't change that number.
-- 
Renato Botelho