In this case we have a very small data example to work from.

A frustratingly small data sample, and if this were $work, I (and I suspect you, too) would instantly be busy calling on the phone or composing an e-mail to the "client" to answer the question "Just what the heck do you really want here?"

... in the OP's case, the default sort order does work.

The legal and ethical obligations of work don't apply in this place, but I still think there is, so to speak, a "moral" obligation (appropriate to a monastery!) to offer to a supplicant defensive measures suitable to the question. After all, none of the example version numbers have leading zeros, and how did, e.g., 'abc-4.2.11-8.el7_2.x86_64' get where it is without first going through 'abc-4.2.9-8.el7_2.x86_64', and might it not yet go to 'abc-4.2.11-10.el7_2.x86_64'?

("I didn't get where I am today without going through 'abc-4.2.9-8.el7_2.x86_64'!" Old Reginald Perrin reference. Never mind...)

Give a man a fish:  <%-{-{-{-<

In reply to Re^4: Advanced Bubble Sort by AnomalousMonk
in thread Advanced Bubble Sort by Anonymous Monk

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