Comment 5 for bug 629727

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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote : Re: [Bug 629727] Re: Packaging: Clarify Ubuntu Font Family versioning

 On 14/09/10 18:46, David Marshall wrote:
> A possible way forward which avoids both of these would be, in the case of 0.6.7.1:
> Binary representation: 0.671
> Version string: "Version 0.671 (0.6.7.1)"
>

Sortability seems a problem with this proposal:

 0.671 ... <?> 0.7?

If you think of the "minor" number as just a number, 671 is definitely
greater than 7. So we'd need to do 0.700 which is just weird.

Mark