In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Yaroslav Rastrigin wrote:
>> (was tested on 4.8-STABLE).
>> Lots of thanks for everyone who reported errors.
> Tarball at
> http://www.relex.ru/~yarick/trswm/trswm-0.4.tar.gz
> I've decided not to change version number.
I don't think that's a good idea. Debian people increment the version
number even if only a single comma was added in the manpage.
Imagine now that someone want's to report a bug, looks what's the
latest version, sees that it is the same version number as his, so he
is sure that there is no later version. Then he talks with his friend
(who has just downloaded the 'new' 0.4 from your page, and knows
nothing about that there was an 'old' 0.4). The bug is fixed in the
'new' 0.4, so it doesn't occur. These two people spend much of their
time, investigating why the bug appears in one persons installation,
and not the other. What a waste of time.
Please, ALWAYS increment the version number if you release a tarball
to the public, even if only a single byte was changed in the tarball.
Of course, for small changes, you should call it 0.4.1 or 0.4.1-pre1
and not 0.5.
thanks,
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