I think the VERSION and PATCHLEVEL only occur together; I don't know what the originl reason was to separate them. Anyway, they are both used in backend.c now to build the complete name (in 3 different formats) to appear in about box and debug file, and in winboard.c for in the winboard.ini file.
If the entire version number will now be in a single variable, we could drop the other and change the sprintf format strings accordingly. Note that in the debian package I released for beta testing on WinBord forum I already bumped the XBoard version name to 4.4.0k, an I have already send you a patch on that one.
