Bug 860438

Description of problem:

I am working with a book that defines the following revisions in the en-US/Revision_History.xml:

<revnumber>0-12</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-11</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-10</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-9</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-8</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-7</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-6</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-5</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-3</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-3</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-2</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-1</revnumber>

When I look at the translation for this book I see there is a ja-JP/Revision_History.xml file with the following revision in it for the translator credits:

<revnumber>0-12.1</revnumber>

When I attempt to package the ja-JP translation using rhpkg publican-build --lang=ja-JP or publican package --lang=ja-JP I get the following error from rpmbuild:

error: %changelog not in descending chronological order

When I look in tmp/ja-JP/xml_tmp/Revision_History.xml I can see that this is because of the way the revisions are being ordered:

$ grep -o '<revnumber.*' tmp/ja-JP/xml_tmp/Revision_History.xml
<revnumber>0-9</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-8</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-7</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-6</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-5</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-3</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-3</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-2</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-12.1</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-12</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-11</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-10</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-1</revnumber>

Not only is the single revision added by the translators listed out of order, so are some of the English revisions. I would have expected the sorting of these revisions to be as follows:

<revnumber>0-12.1</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-12</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-11</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-10</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-9</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-8</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-7</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-6</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-5</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-3</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-3</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-2</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-1</revnumber>

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

publican-3.0-0.fc17.t216.noarch

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:

This will reproduce the sorting of the revisions I describe above, all the revisions being added have the same date so it won't reproduce the rpmbuild error but if you tweak the 0-10 or 0-11 revision to be one day after the rest before step 4 then you will get that as well.

1. publican create --name "Test"
2. cd Test
3. for I in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11; do publican add_revision --lang=en-US --revnumber="0-${I}" --member="TEST" --firstname="Dude" --surname="McPants" --email="dude"; done
4. publican update_pot
5. publican update_po --langs=ja-JP
6. publican build --langs=ja-JP --formats=html

Actual results:

Revision history is sorted as follows...

$ grep -o '<revnumber.*' tmp/ja-JP/xml_tmp/Revision_History.xml 
<revnumber>0.0-0</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-9</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-8</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-7</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-6</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-5</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-4</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-3</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-2</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-11.1</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-11</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-10</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-1</revnumber>

Expected results:

Revision history sorted as follows...

<revnumber>0-11.1</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-11</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-10</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-9</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-8</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-7</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-6</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-5</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-4</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-3</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-2</revnumber>
<revnumber>0-1</revnumber>
<revnumber>0.0-0</revnumber>