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24.0.50; Who ever heard of a version number that doesn't change all year?

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: bug#8054: closed (Re: bug#8054: closed (Re: bug#8054: 24.0.50;
 Who ever heard of a version number that doesn't change all year?))
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 03:03:03 +0000

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Your bug report

#8054: 24.0.50; Who ever heard of a version number that doesn't change all year?

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 8054-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8054: closed (Re: bug#8054: 24.0.50;
	Who ever heard of a version number that doesn't change all year?)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:00:55 -0400

jidanni <at> jidanni.org wrote:

> Thank you but emacs-bzr-version is nil and thus will not help here in
> $ apt-cache policy emacs-snapshot

I suggest you take that up with the person who is kind enough to build
Emacs for you. Or learn to build it yourself.

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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.0.50;
	Who ever heard of a version number that doesn't change all year?
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:54:37 +0800

Gentlemen, let's face it, your version number,
emacs-version "24.0.50.1"
is a total disaster for use in e.g., report-emacs-bug.

Who ever heard of a version number that doesn't change all year?
Even Microsoft with its 6.5235345532543 numbers are better than yours.
I especially like e.g.,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version MediaWiki|1.17wmf1 (r82223)

So do contemplate providing _version information down to the commit
granularity_ like the MediaWiki people do ... available right there to
the report-emacs-bug command, etc.

Don't expect the user to have to explain what time of what day he got his
copy from where, when asked for more details than "24.0.50.1".

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