Bug#497371: cpp-4.3: mismatch between package version, upstream version and /usr/lib/gcc/<arch>/<version>

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Ludovic Brenta writes:
> I agree that changing the upstream version number every time we update the
> snapshot is a bad idea; the svn-updates.dpatch system is good. We should
> only update our version number whenever upstream does. In the case of
> 4.3.2, this happened in branches/gcc-4_3-branch/gcc/BASE-VER in revision
> 136490 on 2008-06-06. I think that, in the future, we should have a
> policy to pay attention to this file; maybe even generate the latest
> ChangeLog entry with a script that reads this file?

for the updates after 4.3.1 I did revert the changes made to DEV-PHASE
and BASE-VERSION, so that the version numbers of upstream and debian
are in sync. I don't mind having this applied again, but exactly this
leads to divergent version numbers.

  Matthias