Deb version Versioning

Identifier

deb

References

• Debian policy - Version
• deb-version man page

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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