From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 12:24:49 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (PREV_VERSION): Tweak so it handles e.g., 2.0a -> 2.0.
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_0n~83
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1a7010a87ff092db40b5b84ef723d27f6929263b;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(PREV_VERSION): Tweak so it handles e.g., 2.0a -> 2.0.
---

diff --git a/Makefile.maint b/Makefile.maint
index db15b885af..912c171ef6 100644
--- a/Makefile.maint
+++ b/Makefile.maint
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ my-distcheck:
 
 THIS_VERSION_REGEXP = $(subst .,\.,$(VERSION))
 # FIXME: this works only for Gnits-style test releases.
-PREV_VERSION := $(shell echo $(VERSION)|tr a-z Xa-y)
+PREV_VERSION := $(shell echo $(VERSION)|tr b-z a-y|sed 's/a$$//')
 PREV_VERSION_REGEXP := $(shell echo $(PREV_VERSION)|sed 's/\./\\./g')
 v = Version