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Date:	Thu, 21 May 2020 12:50:27 +0300
From:	Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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Greetings, Yasuhiro KIMURA!

>> You should discuss changes and intent on cygwin list, post patches on
>> cygwin-apps list.

> Thank you for reply. My first candidate is anthy. Original anthy
> projet has been inactive since 2009. But Debian forked it and made
> improvement and enhancement. So I would like to switch codebase to
> that of Debian. I just checked out cygwin anthy git repository and
> started working but I have one question.

> After project fork by Debian, release version scheme has changed.
> While latest version from original project (and one used by cygwin
> package) is "9100h", latest one from Debian is "0.4". That is, version
> number decreses if I chage codebase to Debian. I know that some
> packaging systems assume version number basically increases and that
> decrement causes package upgrade failure.  So I would like to know if
> it also apply to Cygwin.

It does. This is why you would see test and pre-release versions posted as
X.Y-0.Z and release versions posted as X.Y-Z.

> And if it does then I also would like to know how it should be handled.

An interesting question, given nonstandard original versioning.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, May 21, 2020 12:46:55

Sorry for my terrible english...

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