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Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Version strings...
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Frank Küster |
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Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Version strings... |
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Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:43:46 +0200 |
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David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after thinking a bit about the stuff with version.texi and other
> places where we use version strings, I am of the opinion that this
> sort of version string generation, now scattered over several files
> and sometimes automatic and sometimes not, should maybe done by
> autogen.sh exclusively.
>
> The disadvantage would be that we would get the unchanged version
> numbers even from people downstream. However, since downstream is not
> likely to add anything to our own ChangeLog file, that's the situation
> we are likely going to have to deal with, anyway.
Debian, for example, keeps its own log of packaging-specific changes,
and doesn't change the ChangeLog file. We'd be happy, however, to be
able to add a "-debian.$number" string to the version, which would come
nice for bugreports.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)