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John Ellson <ellson@research.att.com> writes:

>> Of course you can keep a patch with the sed -e 's/-/_/' in
>> GIT-VERSION-GEN as Linus suggested in your development branch.
>>
> Thats basically all I'm looking for.   I agree that is only necessary
> to fix the "make rpm" target.
> Further changes are not strictly necessary.   I don't understand why
> it would only be useful to me?

OK, if somebody is RPM savvy enough to do his own binary RPM and
install it, he would know how to override the downgrade guard
the binary package manager would give him, so it probably is not
such a big deal.  A patch to do "sed -e 's/-/./g'" will be
pushed out in the "master" branch shortly.

I hope if we later see complains on the list that some RPM cut
from an interim snapshot would not install, somebody would take
time to answer such complaints, pretty please?