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Re: RFC: Bump mainline version every time there is a release from the branch
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 17:52:11 -0500
- Subject: Re: RFC: Bump mainline version every time there is a release from the branch
- References: <200211092048.18482@enzo.bigblue.local>
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 08:48:18PM +0100, Franz Sirl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> well, I hope the subject says it all. This would greatly ease version tests in
> configure scripts, cause then you can say:
>
> I want at least the features/fixed bugs in (version >= 2.13.1 || version >=
> 2.13.91) of binutils.
>
> So how about a policy that the mainline version gets bumped each time a
> release is made from the branch?
>
> What do you think?
I'll say the same thing I said last time: whenever a bug is fixed on
the mainline that you care about tracking this way, ask for the version
to be bumped. There's no reason to tie it to branch releases.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer