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

[Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost>]

Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost> writes:

> 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.

Yes, it should have been, but the mistake was made by upstream.
I'll update to 0.60 now and see about 2.1 later.


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31 December 2007: Version 2.1 released.

Minor additions, and now licensed under GPL version 3.
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23 December 2006: Version 2.0 released.

Major revision, now wrapping the Gtk 2 series (such as current Gtk 2.8).
7 December 2006: Version 0.60 released.

Misc fixes.
10 June 2006: Version 0.5 released.

Guile 1.8 support, some bug fixes (including pixmap gc).
2 April 2005: Version 0.41 released.

Bug fixes.