[asterisk-dev] Re: russell: trunk r40153 - in /trunk:acinclude.m4 configure configure.ac

[Patrick]

On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 08:15 -0500, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> ----- Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
> > The RedHat versions of make 3.80 have backported patches from 3.81
> > applied to them.
> 
> That seems rather odd... IIRC, there were no new features in the 3.81 release, only bugfixes, so it seems strange that they wouldn't just update to 3.81. More fun for those of us who have to deal with the results :-)

Afaik Red Hat usually tries to retain the original version number of the
software when shipped/released and backports bugfixes to it. It's not
totally consistent because Firefox was updated to 1.5.0.6 and actually
shows 1.5.0.6 as the version while kernel updates usually keep their
major version and just get another patch added to the spec file and a
minor version bump.

Using 3.81 is not a problem for me as I just add a line to my spec file
changing that value back to 3.80 or whatever Red Hat uses. 

Regards,
Patrick