After potato, Yet Another Perl Renaming

[Chip Salzenberg <chip@valinux.com>]

I don't know why I didn't think of this before, but the Perl project
is now using human-friendly version numbers like "5.5.1" instead of
the old "5.005_01".  The code still looks the same, and in particular
$] is still the same, but rpm and deb versions should be changed, as
Larry observes:

----- Forwarded message from Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> -----

Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 08:00:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>
To: JVromans@Squirrel.nl (Johan Vromans)
Cc: l-perl5-porters <perl5-porters@perl.org>
Subject: Re: [PERL] 5.005_63 RPM spec

Johan Vromans writes:
: 	filename="perl-5.005_63.spec"

One of the reasons for going to a new version numbering scheme is
so that RPM can have version numbers like 5.5.63 and know how to
compare versions, so we should probably start using that form in
the RPMs.

Larry


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