Subject: Re: __NetBSD_Version__ sucks
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@mit.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/11/1998 12:47:57
Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de> writes:

> On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 09:17:13PM -0400, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> > 
> > Consider an interface change in 1.4E.  I change __NetBSD_Version__ to
> > 104050000.  Now I import the same change into 1.4.1, changing
> > __NetBSD_Version__ to 104000100.  In order to make this work, I have
> 
> is this supposed to happen at all, in a bugfix release?

You're assuming that:
* minor releases are always `bugfix releases', and
* that if that's the case, no such change will ever take place.

Both assumptions are completely bogus.