>>>> "dissent" == Alexander Taler
<dissent(a)elea.dhs.org> writes:
dissent> the xemacs package bbdb-1.17 actually corresponds to bbdb
dissent> version 2.32,
And before somebody says anything, this is a known design bug but we
don't have anybody to work on it at the moment.
The AUTHOR_VERSION is actually available to the package machinery at
build time. The VERSION (which is what appears in the name of the
tarball) is used in a number of places in the build process, so
probably the preferred solution is to arrange that AUTHOR_VERSION be
available at run-time, so that list-packages and friends can display
it.
Bonus points for getting this to work with the Window netinstaller.
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