On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Roland Illig wrote:

>> [...] It is now an error if PKGREVISION appears outside a package
>> Makefile.
>
> Does anyone have a problem with this change? Or with my decision of making it 
> an error instead of a warning? After all, this variable is meant to be set 
> per individual package, isn't it?

No problem with change. Yes, that is correct. It is an error.

If someone uses a Makefile.common later they may end up with some "nb" 
suffix.

  Jeremy C. Reed

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