[Distutils] Immutable Files on PyPI

[Barry Warsaw]

On Sep 30, 2014, at 05:40 PM, Wichert Akkerman wrote:

>Debian does allow 3.1.4-1-1. I forgot the exact rules, but I seem to remember
>the package version is considered to start after the last dash. Debian will
>also sort 3.1.4a after 3.1.4 unlike Python rules, so version “massaging”
>might be necessary in other situations as well.

Yeah, but it's maddeningly confusing.  The havoc I mention is human based[*]
if not tools based. ;)

-Barry

[*] at least to *this* human.
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