Re: [E-devel] imlib2 and binutils

[Mandrake (G. Harrison) <man...@ma...>]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 07:45:29PM +1100, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 22:28:43 -0500 Hall Stevenson <hallstevenson@mindspri=
ng.com>
> babbled profusely:
> > Mandrake Cooker shows 2.11.92.0.7. Redhat Rawhide has the same. Redhat
> > 7.2 (possibly updated ?) has 2.11.90.0.8.
> > Hall
>=20
> yeah. yup. i know this.. but to me it looks like the versioning is all wi=
erd.
> their latest tarball is either well behind.. or they have odd versioning
> schemes. or are they not ofifcially releasing tarballs on gnu.org anymore=
? or
> are these tarballs considered cvs development snapshots? whats the story?

redhat, debian, et al, have a tendancy to invent fake version numbers of
things.  I wouldn't be surprised if that is a lot of the problem :)

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