Re: Bugs in unexpand(1) version 6.10

[Jim Meyering]

Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Friday 23 January 2009 09:35:54 Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> What distribution are you using (I'm guessing Fedora 10).
>> Distributions that patch coreutils really should
>> modify the version string accordingly.
>
> if coreutils wants distros to do that, it should really facilitate things.
> the way gcc does it now with gcc-4.3+ is a pretty good standard:
> ./configure ... --with-pkgversion="some vendor/distro string" ...

Good idea.
Patches welcome.