Re: GNU Libtool 2.2.6b released

[Peter O'Gorman]

On 11/16/2009 09:32 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2009, at 7:21 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
>
> > We are intending to release 2.2.8 sometime (hopefully soon) with all
> > the new features and lots of bug fixes from git HEAD.
>
> So why not call this release 2.2.8 and bump the version number of the
> next one to 2.2.10? Is it technically difficult to do so?

Because I never thought to do so.

> My only point is that the last 2 public releases of LT have had
> semantically different meanings of the version number. It is therefore
> VERY unclear that 2.2.6b is a significant security/bug fix release (even
> if the actual changes are minor). If I (a random user) saw that LT
> released 2.2.6b but didn't read anything in the notes, I'd assume that
> it was another packaging change, like 2.2.6a was. I certainly would not
> immediately grok that it contains a security update.

I agree with your points, and had I put any thought at all into version 
numbering I would have done it differently.

Apologies all around.

Peter
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