Re: [ANNOUNCE] PostgreSQL 7.3.6 Now Available ...

On Wednesday 03 March 2004 11:03 am, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> > > On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Palle Girgensohn wrote:
> > >> Just realized that man pages are not installed. Reason is that
> > >> doc/man.tar.gz does not exists, but Makefile expects it. instead,
> > >> there is a doc/man-7.3.tar.gz...
> > >
> > > Damn ... its a quick/easy change on my end, but I had an argument once
> > > way back concerning re-tarring up the distro after being released ...
> > >
> > > Would take me 5 minutes to do ... should I leave, or re-package?
> >
> > I'd say repackage, being careful not to change anything else ...
>
> Running the packaging up now ... that is th eonly thing that will change,
> is the man page tar file being brought in ...

Would it make sense to call it 7.3.6b or some such thing? Seems like a
straightforward way to handle packaging mistakes.