On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > The GNU Inetutils team is pleased to announce the release of > > Inetutils 1.6.
> Congratulations! > > How about bumping the version to something higher than 1.6? I can > commit the patch below if you agree. > > -AC_INIT([GNU inetutils], [1.6], [[email protected]]) > +AC_INIT([GNU inetutils], [1.7], [[email protected]]) > > 1.7.90 or some such, please... Otherwise some distributions will name > a CVS snapshot for 1.7, confusing users. When we are ready to release > 1.7, or a pre-test, we can simply fix the AC_INIT accordingly. > > (we probobly didn't use that before, but we should) The problem is that lexically, 1.7.90 is later. Debian uses ~ to be lexically before a version (so 1.7~90). Sort doesn't agree that this is before, though. But it would be nice to do something like that for a pre-version. -- Jeff Bailey - http://www.raspberryginger.com/jbailey/ "(The panda) was so cute and I just wanted to cuddle him," Liu was quoted as saying from his hospital bed. "I didn't expect he would attack."
