David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > after thinking a bit about the stuff with version.texi and other > places where we use version strings, I am of the opinion that this > sort of version string generation, now scattered over several files > and sometimes automatic and sometimes not, should maybe done by > autogen.sh exclusively. > > The disadvantage would be that we would get the unchanged version > numbers even from people downstream. However, since downstream is not > likely to add anything to our own ChangeLog file, that's the situation > we are likely going to have to deal with, anyway.
Debian, for example, keeps its own log of packaging-specific changes, and doesn't change the ChangeLog file. We'd be happy, however, to be able to add a "-debian.$number" string to the version, which would come nice for bugreports. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive) _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel
