<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Eric S. Raymond <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com" target="_blank">esr@thyrsus.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":sb" class="a3s aXjCH m15944de1d9c13d24">A newbie looking at ntpsec-0.9.6-499 would quite reasonably assume it<br>
means tick 499 after 0.9.6.  It doesn't, because we bump VERSION just<br>
before release rather than just after.</div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">As a newbie, I can confirm that I would expect the same.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Could you do <version>~<tick> , that way it would lexically sort such that <br></div><div class="gmail_extra">0.9.6~499 is before 0.9.6<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-- <br>Sanjeev Gupta<br>+65 98551208     <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane</a></div></div>
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