Simple news version cmp fails for alpha releases.
Problem: ftpadmin simple-news 40.0 41.alpha
exits without result
[jpetridis@master ~]$ ftpadmin simple-news 40.0 41.alpha
Generating news file(s):
[jpetridis@master ~]$
What also didn't work:
$ ftpadmin simple-news 40.0 41.alpha
$ ftpadmin simple-news 40.0.0 41.alpha.0
$ ftpadmin simple-news 40.1 41.alpha
What ended up working:
$ ftpadmin simple-news 40.rc 41.alpha
and before that, last cycle $ ftpadmin simple-news 3.38.0 40.alpha
had also worked fine.
So it looks like there's something wrong in the version comparing code. For the time being I will release with the 40.rc 41.alpha
news generated, since we are a bit late with the release, but should probably debug this before 42.alpha.
Any tips on how to play around with it without having to run things on the ftp machine would be really appreciated!
Edited by Jordan Petridis