Jeff Bailey <[email protected]> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > The GNU Inetutils team is pleased to announce the release of
>> > Inetutils 1.6.
>
>> Congratulations!
>>
>> How about bumping the version to something higher than 1.6? I can
>> commit the patch below if you agree.
>>
>> -AC_INIT([GNU inetutils], [1.6], [[email protected]])
>> +AC_INIT([GNU inetutils], [1.7], [[email protected]])
>>
>> 1.7.90 or some such, please... Otherwise some distributions will name
>> a CVS snapshot for 1.7, confusing users. When we are ready to release
>> 1.7, or a pre-test, we can simply fix the AC_INIT accordingly.
>>
>> (we probobly didn't use that before, but we should)
>
> The problem is that lexically, 1.7.90 is later. Debian uses ~ to be
> lexically before a version (so 1.7~90). Sort doesn't agree that this
> is before, though. But it would be nice to do something like that for
> a pre-version.
How about 1.6.90? That would match the instructions in the GNU
maintainers manual:
In this method, if you are about to release version 4.6 but you want
to do a pretest first, call it 4.5.90. If you need a second pretest,
call it 4.5.91, and so on. If you are really unlucky and ten
pretests are not enough, after 4.5.99 you could advance to 4.5.990
and so on. (You could also use 4.5.100, but 990 has the advantage of
sorting in the right order.)
Or maybe we could use 1.6.89 before there has actually been a first
pretest.
/Simon
Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/inetutils/inetutils/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.26
diff -u -p -r1.26 NEWS
--- NEWS 5 Jan 2009 16:12:38 -0000 1.26
+++ NEWS 5 Feb 2009 14:50:27 -0000
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
-GNU inetutils NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2009-01-05
+GNU inetutils NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2009-02-05
-Copyright (C) 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008
+Copyright (C) 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of this file for for license conditions.
Please send inetutils bug reports to <[email protected]>.
+Unreleased
+Version 1.7:
* Restore the traditional behavior of ping without -c option.
Index: configure.ac
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/inetutils/inetutils/configure.ac,v
retrieving revision 1.47
diff -u -p -r1.47 configure.ac
--- configure.ac 27 Dec 2008 21:18:36 -0000 1.47
+++ configure.ac 5 Feb 2009 14:50:27 -0000
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
# Configuration for inetutils
#
# Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006,
-# 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# Written by Miles Bader <[email protected]>
#
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
AC_PREREQ(2.59)
-AC_INIT([GNU inetutils], [1.6], [[email protected]])
+AC_INIT([GNU inetutils], [1.6.90], [[email protected]])
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([inetd/inetd.c])
AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
