On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 01:20:03PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >Robert Collins wrote: > > >In the "Package file naming" section: >"In the event that a package doesn't sort correctly (for example, from >...-9-... to ...-10-..., use the setup.hint current, prev and exp labels to >override the inbuilt sort during the transition period." > >I think setup.hint's are more-or-less required, now. Otherwise, there's no >way to set the sdesc, ldesc, dependencies, etc. So, the "auto-sort" is a >soon-to-be-vestigial feature; emphasis should be on setup.hint.
I don't think there is any reason to force the versioning in setup.hint. That's sort of error-prone, actually. Experience has shown that. cgf