Ubuntu GCC version numbers

[Andrew Stubbs]

On 27/08/10 13:01, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Yes. The Linoro version misuses the DEV-PHASE field, and introduces
> another pair of parantheses, and a pair of square brackets. How much
> version parsing code out there will break with the new schema? I didn't
> want to find out for 10.10/10.11.

It is a slight abuse, but I wanted it to be unaffected by the configure 
option.

Maybe it would break a version parser somewhere. Maybe we could do that 
test sometime more convenient?

Andrew