Debbug...s::Dpkg(3pm)

💖 Debbugs::Versions::Dpkg 💖

okay bestie, so this is the perl manual page for Debbugs::Versions::Dpkg — it's one of those 3pm perl module pages, and yes it's giving very "user contributed perl documentation" energy, we love that for it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

Debbugs::Versions::Dpkg — pure-Perl dpkg-style version comparison 🦋

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

The Debbugs::Versions::Dpkg module hands you pure-Perl routines that compare dpkg-style version numbers — you know, the exact flavour of version numbers that Debian packages use. literally its whole personality 💅

and like, ngl, if you happen to have the libapt-pkg Perl bindings available (that's the Debian package libapt-pkg-perl, iykyk), they may offer better performance. so that's an option if you're feeling fancy ✨

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👑 METHODS 👑

• vercmp — compares the two arguments as dpkg-style version numbers. returns -1 if the first argument represents a lower version number than the second, 1 if the first argument represents a higher version number than the second, and 0 if the two arguments represent equal version numbers. three whole outcomes, she's decisive 🌈

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com> and Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>, based on the implementation in dpkg/lib/vercmp.c by Ian Jackson and others. absolute icons, we stan 💜

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okay and that's the whole page!! 🎀 this was rendered by perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-04-27, and the manual name at the bottom reads Debbug...s::Dpkg(3pm) — she got a lil truncated in the footer but we all know who she is 💖 bye bestie, go compare some versions, slay ✨