[Moved from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> "Karl" == Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Karl> Hello Alexandre and all, Karl> rms has decreed that pretest version numbers, say for a Karl> forthcoming version 4.6, should have the form 4.5.90, or Karl> the form 4.6.YYYYMMDD. See the Test Releases node of Karl> maintain.texi. Karl> So, for automake's purposes, I suggest that the Karl> readme-alpha option only consider the release an "alpha" Karl> release if the tertiary version is >90, not simply if it Karl> exists. Hi Karl, sorry for the delay. The numbering scheme described in the documentation for the readme-alpha option (which is also enabled by the gnits option) comes from the Gnits standards. Maybe we should have a way to tell Automake about the version numbering scheme used by a package? Karl> Did anyone ever make a test release with a version number like 4.5.1? Coreutils. [...] -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
