Re: naim review (was Re: Pending package status (14 Jul 2003))

["Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>]

Daniel Reed wrote:
> On 2003-07-15T23:12-0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> ) >> ) > On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> ) >> ) > > url    :
> http://shell.n.ml.org/n/naim/naim-0.11.5.9.cyg10-cygwinrelease.tar.bz2 )
The
> release name is nonstandard, though.  cyg11 shouldn't be there.
>
> That's actually part of the version, 0.11.5.9.cyg11. 0.11 is the
> codebase/major number, 5 is the interface/minor number, 9.cyg11 is the
> patchlevel (11th Cygwin-specific packaging adjustment since the 10th
feature
> release). The Cygwin release adds -1, but since naim packages itself, that
> will always be -1 unless a Cygwin maintainer does something like changing
> the category between me and the mirrors.

So, why not write the version number as 0.11.5.9-11, and not add a
redundant -1?

Max.