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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Subject: Re: [patch] kbuild: Improve version string logic
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On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:37:07PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
> I really don't see how it improves visibility (unless you're oblivious
> to the difference between long and short strings), but I do know that I
> have a few parsers that this will break.
> 
> I think adding the + unconditionally will also break things like
> debian's make-kpkg, for instance, since the + would get propagated into
> the package version which reserves the + for something else.
> 
> Etc. Can we please make this stuff optional?

That's exactly what I'm afraid of.  I'd really like to keep the long
version AUTOVERSION strings the same, please.

						- Ted
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