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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: Configure options --with-bugurl, --with-pkgversion
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Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:00:01PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> But that is not what pkgversion is supposed to do, if I understand
>> <http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/ConfigVersion> correctly.  It should rather
>> specify an additional version tag (a vendor identifier) _extending_ the
>> existing one.
>
> Perhaps binutils should use the 2.17.50.20070220 notation by default
> for dated snapshots, as GDB does.

Yes, I agree that this would definitely be a good thing.

Andreas.

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