On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Nick Boyce wrote:

> > 	A version increment is probably good enough - we don't tend to
> > 	have so many patches for a given program that people should be
> > 	picking and choosing, and if they do, they can pick their own
> > 	version :)
> 
> OK - that makes sense.  No point in getting overcomplicated I guess.
> And this only matters for patches to code which actually *has* a
> version string to display - so I suppose it's an issue with that
> particular patch, rather than a general patch policy issue.  Do you
> think this should be brought to the attention of the ftpd patch
> author, or should I still post to tech-security ?

	I think tech-security - we need to establish whether we want
	to be cranking version numbers in principle, before applying
	that to this ftpd example...

                David/absolute
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