Description of problem: Perhaps it's my misunderstanding, but it seems bash versions are a bit inconsistent (or just wrong). RHEL 5 rpm -q bash bash-3.1-16.1 bash --version GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. RHEL 4 rpm -q bash bash-3.0-19.3.i386 bash --version GNU bash, version 3.00.15(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Expected results: That the versions would be consistent.
Yeah. The version is not supposed to reflect the patchlevel of bash. It's just a package release number. I may consider putting the patchlevel to the Version field. Other distributions don't seem to do this with bash though (e.g. Debian), unlike with vim, for example.
Thanks for the feedback. What will cause you to decide one way or the other, to add or not add the patchlevel to the version field?
Opinions of people who I do/should respect (including myself) :)
You can close this bug if you will not be acting on it. Please let me know.
Closing because: - we may want to back out a patch some day (which would make the version not have any sense) - other distros don't use this versioning with bash - it's easier to leave it as it is :)