Every release, it's the same dance: a few packages want version bumps because the OS version changed.
This means a bit of work for naddy, and noise for most of us: I tend to have a bulk in-progress while this is going on, so my plist get bumped, and then later I get to the new version, and I get a bunch of trivial errors thanks to plist changes for packages that already got bumped (gratuitously) for me. But basically, this is useless: due to the way we do releases, OS version doesn't mean ANYTHING with respect to those pieces of software. I propose that, after 7.4, we get rid of those pesky version numbers that are useless for us. We did that in base for perl (did we do it for base gcc as well, I don't remember) and that infestation of locusts that was promised still hasn't come. I don't think software like octave or xemacs deserve special treatement. Do they ?
