[tor-bugs] #4210 [Tor Client]: Undefined version comparisions

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#4210: Undefined version comparisions
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 Reporter:  atagar                   |          Owner:                  
     Type:  defect                   |         Status:  new             
 Priority:  trivial                  |      Milestone:  Tor: unspecified
Component:  Tor Client               |        Version:                  
 Keywords:  documentation spec easy  |         Parent:                  
   Points:                           |   Actualpoints:                  
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Comment(by Sebastian):

 I think we should close this as invalid, because (and please check my
 reasoning!):

 Empty patchlevel is already defined:
 {{{
  As before, MAJOR, MINOR, MICRO,
  and PATCHLEVEL are numbers, with an absent number equivalent to 0.
 }}}

 It also specifies that the tag is eye-candy only:
 {{{
  All versions should be distinguishable purely by those four
  numbers. The status tag is purely informational, and lets you know how
  stable we think the release is:
 }}}

 From this follows that a.b.c.d must be the same as a.b.c.d- and
 a.b.c.d-bla.

 This also means that a.b.c.d-bla is to be treated the same as a.b.c.d-bla-
 dev, which I think might be unintentional but is also OK: Strictly
 speaking, those don't constitute versions of Tor, because more than one
 commit has that same version.

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