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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 18:48:48 -0400
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Anomalies in Source Distributions
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At 04:03 PM 4/27/2004, you wrote:
>Op Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:46:57 -0400
>schreef Larry Hall <cygwin-lh te cygwin.com>
>in <6 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 0 DOT 20040422133723 DOT 038e2548 AT 127 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 1>:
>:  At 01:08 PM 4/22/2004, you wrote:
>                          ^^^
>"Philip Brown" <pbrown00 uit earthlink.net>, not me.
>
>[...]
>: > sharutils-4.2.1-3 - Similar to above for file:
>: >    /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/sharutils.README
>: >   which should be sharutils-4.2.1-3.README per your configuration system to
>: > the best of my understanding.
>:
>:
>:   No.  The prescribed approach from <http://cygwin.com/setup.html> is:
>:
>:    In your binary package, include a file /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/foo-vendor-  
>:    suffix.README containing (at a minimum) the information needed for an end 
>:    user to recreate the package. This includes CFLAGS settings, configure 
>:    parameters, etc. 
>:
>:  This doesn't say any package version number is a requirement.  There are 
>:  benefits to leaving the number off (i.e. the same file applies to any 
>:  version).
>
>Then, what is meant by ``-vendor-suffix'' in the above quotation?


That would be the "4.2.1" for the sharutils example above.  It's the upstream
version numbers, not the Cygwin-specific release number.


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