Bug 27753

Summary: version 1.0 is not recognized as being >= 1
Product: pkg-config Reporter: lievenmoors
Component: srcAssignee: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description lievenmoors 2010-04-20 08:21:22 UTC 
The pkg-config file installed by a package (lv2core) contains this line:

Version: 1

When I try to compile another package it uses this command:

pkg-config --errors-to-stdout --print-errors --atleast-version=1.0 lv2core

and pkg-config returns 1

I've seen other .pc files which use an int for the package version, so I think it
is allowed. If this is the case, pkg-config should return 0 when comparing 1 with 1.0.
Comment 1 Tollef Fog Heen 2010-05-09 00:39:40 UTC 
We're using the version comparison function from RPM where 1 isn't larger than or equal to 1.0.  I was somewhat surprised to see the same behaviour in dpkg too, but I don't want to change our version comparision function to be incompatible.

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