On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 05:21:50PM +0300, Serkan Özkan wrote:
> We are using Debian OVAL definitions but there are many tests, and states,
> that test for dpkg versions being less than 0.0 which is impossible in
> practice (right?).
no, it's possible:
0~1 is a valid version. It's smaller than zero, yet it's not a negative
number.
It's usually used for versions like 1.0~0alpha1-1 to allow the next
version to be 1.0-1... but 0~1 is a legal and valid version too.
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