Deb version Versioning

Identifier

deb

References

• https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#version
• https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/dpkg-dev/deb-version.7.en.html

Ranges/Constraints

❌ No range support.

Description

Deb versioning compares versions like package managers on Debian-based Linux distributions compare packages (dpkg, apt). Deb versioning supports complicated version numbers, including alphabetical characters almost everywhere. Similar to our "loose" versioning, deb versioning is a "best effort" attempt to convert deb versions to SemVer fields like major, minor, patch.

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