Subject: Re: What's the right version number?
To: Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/17/2000 14:17:21
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Johnny C. Lam wrote:

: I need to make a change to the ap-php4 package that necessitates
: bumping the package version number.  The current ap-php4 package
: installs as:
:
: 	ap-php-4.0.3pl1

This should be ap-php-4.0.3.1.  We should NOT be using these funky release
addendums except in the case of "nb".  Dots are the standard.

A nice offender that I keep frgetting to fix is lynx.  Its version numbering
scheme is just Wrong for pkgsrc.

: 	ap-php-4.0.3pl1nb1

ap-php-4.0.3.1nb1

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