Debian package version

[Tom H]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 3:50 AM, Sam Giraffe <sam at giraffetech.biz> wrote:
>
> How does apt-get understand if a package version is newer than another one?
>
> In case of simple versioning of packages such as 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, I
> imagine it does a comparison between the numbers?
>
> My problem is that my package is versioned as such:
>
> 201510162108+0a8974b-HEAD
> 20151029T114141+259421f+HEAD
>
> And apt-get install <package> is telling me that the 1016 package is
> newer than the 1029 package which is not true.
>
> So when I run apt-get install I get this message:
>
> mypackage:amd64 201510162108+0a8974b-HEAD newer than version in archive
>
> This is not true, since the one in the archive is from Oct 29.
>
> Will I have to change my package versioning for apt-get to understand
> the package versions?

201510162108 > 20151029