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Description
Describe the problem
I've stumbled upon this small debian "anomaly" where their versioning is not 100% compatible with semver:
debian uses the tilde character for pre-releases and SemVer uses a colon
so if we take the versions in the SemVer example: 1.0.0-alpha < 1.0.0-alpha.1 < 1.0.0-alpha.beta < 1.0.0-beta < 1.0.0-beta.2 < 1.0.0-beta.11 < 1.0.0-rc.1 < 1.0.0
for the same versions, debian ordering would be 1.0.0 < 1.0.0-alpha < 1.0.0-alpha.1 < 1.0.0-alpha.beta < 1.0.0-beta < 1.0.0-beta.2 < 1.0.0-beta.11 < 1.0.0-rc.1
Describe the solution you'd like
Replacing the first colon (since SemVer allows multiple to appear) with a tilde (most likely in the deb bundling process since it doesn't seem to affect other parts).
The result for the above example is: 1.0.0~alpha < 1.0.0~alpha.1 < 1.0.0~alpha.beta < 1.0.0~beta < 1.0.0~beta.2 < 1.0.0~beta.11 < 1.0.0~rc.1 < 1.0.0, the desired order.
Alternatives considered
Leave it as is - after all it's a somewhat niche problem to have (usage of pre-versioning may not be as widespread).
Additional context
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