On 21 Jan 2024 14:42, Karl Berry wrote:
> I changed the pretest version to 1.16.90. Closing.
thx bud. i appreciates you.
-mike
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I changed the pretest version to 1.16.90. Closing.
"Zack Weinberg" writes:
> On Sun, Jan 14, 2024, at 1:49 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On 13 Jan 2024 15:58, Karl Berry wrote:
>>> Another alternative: when this came up 30-odd years ago, rms changed the
>>> GNU maintainers doc to suggest x.y.90, .91, etc. for pretests. Doing
>>> that would at le
On Sun, Jan 14, 2024, at 1:49 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 13 Jan 2024 15:58, Karl Berry wrote:
>> Another alternative: when this came up 30-odd years ago, rms changed the
>> GNU maintainers doc to suggest x.y.90, .91, etc. for pretests. Doing
>> that would at least have the benefit of following
On 13 Jan 2024 15:58, Karl Berry wrote:
> Another alternative: when this came up 30-odd years ago, rms changed the
> GNU maintainers doc to suggest x.y.90, .91, etc. for pretests. Doing
> that would at least have the benefit of following a recommendation, and
> as a side effect, would also fix jami
there is nothing requiring or restricting the current version behavior
other than "it's always been this way".
True.
but that doesn't mean it's better.
No way to know what release or test scripts might be relying on the
current convention. Changing for the sake of change doesn't se
On 06 Jan 2024 15:37, Karl Berry wrote:
> Automake and other packages have used letters for pretests for decades,
true ...
> and it's not plausible to change now.
eh ? there is nothing requiring or restricting the current version behavior
other than "it's always been this way". but that doesn'
Carl - sorry, you'll need to adjust your script. Automake and other
packages have used letters for pretests for decades, and it's not
plausible to change now.
Also, I have the impression that other packages use random git hexids in
their pretest releases, which aren't numeric either. -k
Building a package (happens to be "jami") , which runs a script it its
build process that checks for automake
expr: non-integer argument
automake (GNU automake) 1.16j
Fatal error: automake 1.7 or higher is required. Please set $AUTOMAKE
to point to a newe
