Description: Improve handling of Debian kernel version numbers
Author: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
Forwarded: not-needed
Last-Update: 2011-04-21

Index: b/util/grub-mkconfig_lib.in
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--- a/util/grub-mkconfig_lib.in
+++ b/util/grub-mkconfig_lib.in
@@ -172,8 +172,9 @@
 
 version_test_gt ()
 {
-  local a="`echo "$1" | sed -e "s/[^-]*-//"`"
-  local b="`echo "$2" | sed -e "s/[^-]*-//"`"
+  local sedexp="s/[^-]*-//;s/[._-]\(pre\|rc\|test\|git\|old\|trunk\)/~\1/g"
+  local a="`echo "$1" | sed -e "$sedexp"`"
+  local b="`echo "$2" | sed -e "$sedexp"`"
   local cmp=gt
   if [ "x$b" = "x" ] ; then
     return 0
@@ -183,7 +184,7 @@
     *.old:*) a="`echo -n "$a" | sed -e 's/\.old$//'`" ; cmp=gt ;;
     *:*.old) b="`echo -n "$b" | sed -e 's/\.old$//'`" ; cmp=ge ;;
   esac
-  version_test_numeric "$a" "$cmp" "$b"
+  dpkg --compare-versions "$a" $cmp "$b"
   return "$?"
 }