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Re: [bug-inetutils] Re: inetutils-1.6 released
From: |
Jeff Bailey |
Subject: |
Re: [bug-inetutils] Re: inetutils-1.6 released |
Date: |
Thu, 5 Feb 2009 09:48:02 -0500 |
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt <address@hidden> 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], address@hidden)
> +AC_INIT([GNU inetutils], [1.7], address@hidden)
>
> 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.
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Re: [bug-inetutils] Re: inetutils-1.6 released, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/02/05