GNU bug report logs - #14338
24.3.50; ELPA package ack fails to install

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: chad <yandros <at> MIT.EDU>

Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 02:41:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #35 received at 14338 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Liu <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: chad <yandros <at> MIT.EDU>, 14338 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14338: 24.3.50; ELPA package ack fails to install
Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 09:54:18 +0800

On 2013-05-06 08:20 +0800, Glenn Morris wrote:
> I'm not trying to difficult, but I really would like to know what this
> version scheme means. Could you explain it? Is 1.01 the same as 1.1,
> just written differently for sorting purposes? (IIUC, you added both ack
> and sokoban.)

It was supposed to mean 1.1 but padded with 0. I was thinking 1.9 is
written as 1.09 and it is clearly smaller than 1.10 etc. But 1.04 was
the number used by xemacs and I have no idea why it was picked up.

Leo
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