> 
> 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.

Further:

* that people don't need to key on version information about bug
fixes.

(e.g. people might need to know "bug X in the shared loader was fixed
in -current as of date D, or in bug fix release X.Y.Z")



cgd