Mercurial 0.6b package for Ubuntu

[Vincent Danjean]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 09:36:36AM -0400, Kevin Smith wrote:
> Thanks to the efforts of Vincent Danjean (who created the Debian package 
> for Mercurial) and Wes Chow (who rebuilds it for Ubuntu), I have now 
> posted an Ubuntu/Hoary mercurial-0.6b package to the apt repo at:
> 
>     deb http://fxa.org/apt/mercurial-hoary /
> 
> If you installed the Ubuntu 0.6 package earlier, you will need to force 
> a "downgrade" to 0.6b, due to Debian package system naming rule 
> oddities. Wes and I have changed the revision naming a bit, so hopefully 
> this won't be a problem with any future updates.

Is this due to your version of dpkg ? For me (debian/sid), I have :
vdanjean at galadriel:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.6 "<" 0.7 && echo ok
ok
vdanjean at galadriel:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.6 "<" 0.5 && echo ok
vdanjean at galadriel:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.6 "<" 0.6b && echo ok
ok
vdanjean at galadriel:~$ dpkg --version 
Debian GNU/Linux `dpkg' package management program version 1.13.10 (i386).

  This seems correct...

    Vincent