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30.2 Version sort implementation
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GNU Coreutils version sort is based on the “upstream version” part of
Debian’s versioning scheme
(https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#version).

   This section describes the GNU Coreutils sort ordering rules.

   The next section (*note Differences from Debian version sort::)
describes some differences between GNU Coreutils and Debian version
sort.

* Menu:

* Version-sort ordering rules::
* Version sort is not the same as numeric sort::
* Version sort punctuation::
* Punctuation vs letters::
* The tilde ~::
* Version sort ignores locale::