Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@xxxxxx> writes: > * Jim Meyering wrote on Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 08:45:43AM CET: >> >> An alternative is to change the format of the version string, like >> git does. s/-/./g. They also prepend an alpha ('g') to the SHA1 part. > > A small data point: I recall Debian disliking '-' in version strings at > one point in time, because they like to append their own package version > with one or more hyphens. Dunno how much that matters any more or at > all, or if other distros do similar. RPM disallows hyphens in version strings altogether. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@xxxxxxx SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf