At 19:04 Uhr +0100 17.02.2002, Sylvain Cuaz wrote:
>Le dimanche 17 février 2002, à 06:17 PM, Max Horn a écrit :
>
>>1) Why this change?
>
>       The previous version (4.2) was mantained by chrisP and he had
>to manually create shared libs because readline didn't support
>darwin. This by-hand shared libraries has 4.2.0 compatibility
>version.
>       Now version 4.2a adds darwin support, and readline creates
>the libs with 4.0.0 compatibility version.

Doh. Is there anything we gain be using their 4.0.0 ? Why not patch
it to keep using 4.2.0 as compatibility version, since there never
was an older version than 4.2 on OS X anyway, why bother with this?
It causes a lot of inconiance for hundreds of users with no visible
gain.


>
>>2) Why is it not documented in your new .info file?
>
>       because I didn't think of it :-)

Then fix that please.

>       that make me thought why not add a new field for writing down
>the changes between revision ? or is descPackaging appropriate for
>this ?

There is normally need for this, except maybe for very special cases.
And in such, you put it into any of the Desc* fields depending on
where it is most appropriate.


Max
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