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Re: updating CHANGES-YYYY manually considered harmful ;-)



On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, David Holland wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:23:23PM +0300, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
>  > Ok. Then where is the information about downgrades?
>  >  devel/guile-gtk guile-gtk 0.40.91nb3 0.5
> I suppose the Dewey logic is upset that 0.5 > 0.40? Unfortunately,
> many packages are versioned that way.

Perhaps the 0.5 should have been 0.50?  I don't know anything about
this particular package, but I do think that it a very bad thing for a
version number to go backwards.

--apb (Alan Barrett)


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